Phys.Rev. C 86, 034310 (2012)

C.Bauer, T.Behrens, V.Bildstein, A.Blazhev, B.Bruyneel, J.Butterworth, E.Clement, L.Coquard, J.L.Egido, A.Ekstrom, C.R.Fitzpatrick, C.Fransen, R.Gernhauser, D.Habs, H.Hess, J.Leske, T.Kroll, R.Krucken, R.Lutter, P.Marley, T.Moller, T.Otsuka, N.Patronis, A.Petts, N.Pietralla, T.R.Rodriguez, N.Shimizu, C.Stahl, I.Stefanescu, T.Stora, P.G.Thirolf, D.Voulot, J.van de Walle, N.Warr, F.Wenander, A.Wiens

Prolate shape of ¹⁴⁰Ba from a first combined Doppler-shift and Coulomb-excitation measurement at the REX-ISOLDE facility

NUCLEAR REACTIONS ⁹⁶Mo(¹⁴⁰Ba, ¹⁴⁰Ba'), [¹⁴⁰Ba secondary beam from U(p, X), E=1.4 GeV primary beam], E=392 MeV; measured Eγ, Iγ, (particle)γ-coin, yields in different angular ranges, differential σ(θ), half-life of first 2+ state by DSAM using REX-ISOLDE and MINIBALL setup at ISOLDE-CERN. ¹⁴⁰Ba; deduced level, E2 matrix element, B(E2), and static quadrupole moment of first 2+ state. Z=56, A=130=146; systematics of energies and B(E2) of first 2+ states. Comparison with Monte Carlo shell-model approach and beyond-mean-field calculations. Gogny energy density functionals and distribution of probability contours in the triaxial (β, γ) plane for 0+, 2+ and 4+ states first two bands.

NUCLEAR MOMENTS ¹⁴⁰Ba; measured static quadrupole moment of first 2+ state by reorientation analysis of Coulomb-excitation yields.

doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.86.034310