1. First glimpse of the $N=82$ shell closure below $Z=50$ from masses of neutron-rich cadmium isotopes and isomers
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Manea, V., Karthein, J., Atanasov, D., Bender, M., Blaum, K., Cocolios, T. E., Eliseev, S., Herlert, A., Holt, J. D., Huang, W. J., Litvinov, Yu. A., Lunney, D., Menéndez, J., Mougeot, M., Neidherr, D., Schweikhard, L., Schwenk, A., Simonis, J., Welker, A., Wienholtz, F., and Zuber, K.
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Nuclear Experiment ,Nuclear Theory - Abstract
We probe the $N=82$ nuclear shell closure by mass measurements of neutron-rich cadmium isotopes with the ISOLTRAP spectrometer at ISOLDE-CERN. The new mass of $^{132}$Cd offers the first value of the $N=82$, two-neutron shell gap below $Z=50$ and confirms the phenomenon of mutually enhanced magicity at $^{132}$Sn. Using the recently implemented phase-imaging ion-cyclotron-resonance method, the ordering of the low-lying isomers in $^{129}$Cd and their energies are determined. The new experimental findings are used to test large-scale shell-model, mean-field and beyond-mean-field calculations, as well as the ab initio valence-space in-medium similarity renormalization group., Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures; reference added, minor editorial corrections
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- 2020
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