First spectroscopic study of v 63 at the N=40 island of inversion

Abstract

9 pags., 3 figs. ; The low-lying level structure of V63 was studied for the first time by the inelastic proton scattering and the proton knock-out reaction in inverse kinematics. The comparison of the newly observed γ-ray transitions at 696(8) keV and 889(16) keV with our shell-model calculations using the Lenzi-Nowacki-Poves-Sieja interaction established two excited states proposed to be the first 11/2- and 9/2- levels. The (p,p′) excitation cross sections were analyzed by the coupled channel formalism assuming pure quadrupole as well as quadrupole+hexadecapole deformations. This resulted in large deformation parameters placing V63 in the island of inversion located below Ni68. ; We are very grateful to the RIKEN Nishina Center accelerator staff for providing the stable beam and to the BigRIPS team for the smooth operation of the secondary beams. The development of the MINOS device has been supported by the European Research Council through the ERC Grant No. MINOS-258567. F.B. was supported by the RIKEN Special Postdoctoral Researcher Program. K.O. acknowledges the support by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research JP16K05352. Y.U. acknowledges the support by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research No. 20K03981. Y.L.S. acknowledges the support of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015-705023) from the European Union and the support from the Helmholtz International Center for FAIR. H.N.L. acknowledges the support from the Enhanced Eurotalents program (PCOFUND-GA-2013-600382) co-funded by CEA and the European Union. T.A., C.L., D.R., H.T., V.W., L.Z., H.N.L., V.W., and A.O. acknowledge the support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) Project No. 279384907-SFB 1245. R.B.G. acknowledges the support from the DFG under Grant No. BL 1513/1-1. Y.L.S. and A.O. acknowledge the support from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. B.D.L. and L.X.C. acknowledge the support from the Vietnam Ministry of Science and Technology under Grant No. ĐTCB.01/21/VKHKTHN. I.G. has been supported by HIC for FAIR and HRZZ under Projects No. 1257 and No. 7194. F.B. acknowledge the support from the RIKEN Special Postdoctoral Researcher Program. D.S. and Z.E. were supported by Projects No. GINOP-2.3.3-15-2016-00034 and K128947. V.V. acknowledges support from the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad under Contract No. FPA2017-84756-C4-2-P. V.W. and P.K. acknowledge the support from BMBF Grants No. 05P15RDFN1 and No. 05P19RDFN1. P.K. acknowledges support from HGSHIRe. This work was also supported by NKFIH (114454) and by Swedish Research Council under Grants No. 621-2014-5558 and No. 2019-04880. K.I.H., D.K., and S.Y.P. acknowledge the support from the IBS grant funded by the Korea government (No. IBS-R031-D1). T.N. and Y.K. acknowledge the support by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grants No. JP16H02179, No. JP18H05404, and No. JP21H04465. ; Peer reviewed