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| Author(s): |
Paula Rangel Pestana Allegro
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física (IF/SBI) |
| Defense date: | 2013-08-13 |
| Examining board members: |
Nilberto Heder Medina;
Brett Vern Carlson;
Silvia Monica Lenzi;
Carlin Alexandre Ur;
Vito Roberto Vanin;
Cibele Bugno Zamboni
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| Advisor: | Nilberto Heder Medina |
| Abstract | |
One of the most reliable models for describing nuclei is the Large Scale Shell Model, which has been shown to reproduce with very good accuracy detailed nuclear properties. In the A=50-80 mass region, the 1g9/2 and 2d5/2 orbitals are needed to describe the parity changes of the excited states and deformed structures, but the role of these two orbitals in the excited states of odd and odd-odd-mass nuclei near the stability line has still to be investigated. In this thesis, a systematic study is performed to determine the role of the 1g9/2 and 2d5/2 orbitals in the excited states of odd-odd 64,66,68,70Ga. This has been done in the framework of a systematic study of odd-mass Zn, Ga and Ge nuclei in the mass A= 60 -70 region by means of Large Scale Shell Model calculations. Nuclear properties of 64,66,70Ga and 67Ge nuclei, such as the energy of the excited states and the lifetime of isomeric states were measured at University of São Paulo, Brazil, and at Florida State University, USA, using the SACI-PERERE, SISMEI and FSU Clover Array -ray spectrometers and the 58Ni(12C, xpynz)64Ga,67Ge, 55Mn(18O, xpynz)66,70Ga, 58Ni(11B, 2pn)66Ga and 51V(19F, p3n) 66Ga fusionevaporation reactions. The obtained experimental results for those nuclei and the known values of 68Ga and odd-mass Zn, Ga, Ge were compared with the results of the Large Scale Shell Model using five different residual interactions: JUN45, FPG, FPG (Neutron Rich), JJ4b-SDI to describe excitations to the 1g9/2 orbital and LNPS to describe the excitations to the 2d5/2 orbital. Thirty-four new transitions and 19 new excited states were identified in the 67Ge nucleus, one new transition and an excited state were found in the 70Ga nucleus, while the excited states and transitions of 64,66Ga nuclei known in previous works were confirmed. The multipolarities of some transitions of 64,66,70Ga and 67Ge nuclei were determined by using the DCO ratios (Directional Correlations of -rays from Oriented States of Nuclei). The measured value for the half-life of the 66Ga 1464.33 (15) keV isomeric state is T1/2 = 58.1 (12) ns, while the measured value for the half-life of the 67Ge 751.70 (6) keV isomeric state is T1/2= 107.2 (23) ns. The JUN45 and FPG effective interactions give a good description of the excited states of the 64,66,68,70Ga isotopes and they have shown that the negative parity excited states were preferentially formed by the excitation of only one neutron to the 1g9/2 orbital. In the case of the more neutron rich 68,70Ga nuclei, where neutron excitations from the pf shell to the 2d5/2 could occur, the calculated results using the LNPS effective interaction have shown that the 2d5/2 orbital remains practically empty and only the 1g9/2 orbital is occupied in the gds shell. (AU) | |