Coulomb excitation of radioactive 20, 21Na

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M. A. Schumaker1, D. Cline, G. Hackman2, C. Pearson2, C. E. Svensson1, C. Y. Wu3, A. Andreyev2, R. A. E. Austin4, G. C. Ball2, D. Bandyopadhyay1, J. A. Becker3, A. J. Boston5, H. C. Boston5, L. Buchmann2, R. Churchman2, F. Cifarelli2, R. J. Cooper5, D. S. Cross6, D. Dashdorj7, G. A. Demand1, M. R. Dimmock5, T. E. Drake8, P. Finlay1, A. T. Gallant4, P. E. Garrett1,2, K. L. Green1, A. N. Grint5, G. F. Grinyer1, L. J. Harkness5, A. B. Hayes9, R. Kanungo2,4, A. F. Lisetskiy10, K. G. Leach1, G. Lee2, R. Maharaj2, J-P. Martin11, F. Moisan12, A. C. Morton2, S. Mythili2,13, L. Nelson5, O. Newman2,14, P. J. Nolan5, J. N. Orce2,15, E. Padilla-Rodal2, A. A. Phillips1, M. Porter-Peden16, J. J. Ressler6, R. Roy12, C. Ruiz2, F. Sarazin16, D. P. Scraggs5, J. C. Waddington17, J. M. Wan6, A. Whitbeck9, S. J. Williams2, J. Wong1
1Department of Physics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
2TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada
3Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, USA
4Department of Astronomy and Physics, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada
5Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
6Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
7Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
8Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
9Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, USA
10Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
11Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
12Département de physique de génie physique et d’optique, Université de Laval, Laval, Canada
13Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
14Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
15Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, (USA)
16Physics Department, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, USA
17Department of Physics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

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The low-energy structures of the radioactive nuclei 20, 21Na have been examined using Coulomb excitation at the TRIUMF-ISAC radioactive ion beam facility. Beams of ∼ 5×106 ions/s were accelerated to 1.7MeV/A and Coulomb excited in a 0.5mg/cm^2 natTi target. Two TIGRESS HPGe clover detectors perpendicular to the beam axis were used for $ \gamma$ -ray detection, while scattered nuclei were observed by the Si detector BAMBINO. For 21Na , Coulomb excitation from the 3/2+ ground state to the first excited 5/2+ state was observed, while for 20Na , Coulomb excitation was observed from the 2+ ground state to the first excited 3+ and 4+ states. For both beams, B ( $ \lambda$ L) values were determined using the 2+ $ \rightarrow$ 0+ de-excitation in 48Ti as a reference. The resulting B(E2) ↓ value for 21Na is 137±9 e^2fm^4, while the resulting B( $ \lambda$ L) ↓ values for 20Na are 55±6 e^2fm^4 for the 3+ $ \rightarrow$ 2+ , 35.7±5.7 e^2 fm^4 for the 4+ $ \rightarrow$ 2+ , and 0.154±0.030 μ_N^2 for the 4+ $ \rightarrow$ 3+ transitions. This analysis significantly improves the measurement of the 21Na B(E2) value, and provides the first experimental determination of B( $ \lambda$ L) values for the proton dripline nucleus 20Na .-1

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