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| Author(s): |
Kenia Teodoro Wiedemann
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: | 2009-02-04 |
| Examining board members: |
Nilberto Heder Medina;
Luiz Felipe Alvahydo de Ulhôa Canto;
Diógenes Galetti;
Alinka Lepine;
Vito Roberto Vanin
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| Advisor: | Nilberto Heder Medina |
| Abstract | |
In the present work the electromagnetic decay properties of the mirror pair 67As and 67Se are investigated. The experiment was performed in the Argonne National Laboratory, and these nuclei were produced through the fusion-evaporation reaction 32S +40 Ca, with a 90 MeV beam provided by the ATLAS accelerator. The gamma rays emitted by the residual nuclei were observed using the Gammasphere spectrometer, with 72 HPGe detectors, and its ancillary system composed of the Microball and Neutron Shell systems, for charged particle and neutron detection, respectively. The obtained level schemes are very similiar, as expected for mirror nuclei, and characterized by strong E1 transitions in the main sequencies. Five new transitions and two new excited states were added to the already known 67As level scheme, and in the case of the 67Se nucleus, the level scheme was extended up to 5.56 MeV, and twelve new transitions and eight new excited states were added to the previously known level scheme. The multipolarities were obtained by ADO analysis, taking into account the geometry of the Gammasphere spectrometer. In the theoretical point of view, Large Scale Shell Model calculations were performed, using KB3G and GXPF1 residual interactions for the natural parity states description, including electromagnetic interactions among the valence nucleons. The fpg residual interaction, with no electromagnetic interaction among the valence nucleons, was used for the positive parity description. Diferences in the analogue states energies were discussed using arguments based on the role of the isospin quantum number in the electromagnetic decay properties. The GXPF1 residual interaction provided a better description of the nuclear states, and was assumed as the best theoretical description provider for the nuclear states of the mirror pair 67As and 67Se. The mirror energies dierences were investigated including the orbit-orbit (Ell ) and the spin-orbit (Els) corrections to the single particle energies, and an estimative of an isospin non-conserving term (VB). The results showed that the proposed corrections do not describe completely the mirror energy diferences of the natural parity states, for this mirror pair, which is the heaviest mirror pair known nowadays, indicating that improvements in the residual interactions are highly desirable for this mass region. There was observed diferences in the strengths of the 319 and 304 keV transitions, that depopulate the 9/2+ analogue states of the 67As and 67Se respectively, being B(E1)319 keV = 8.6(6) × 106 u.W., and B(E1)319 keV = 2.6(8) × 106 u.W. The diferences were discussed in terms of a possible charge symmetry breaking, supported by the theoretical results, that showed a slight diference in the wavefunctions, described by the occupation numbers, of the analogue states populated by these transitions. (AU) | |