[Submitted on 13 Jul 2015] (cross-list from nucl-ex)
Splitting of ISGMR strength in the light-mass nucleus Mg due to ground-state deformation
Y. K. Gupta🇺🇸 · U. Garg🇺🇸 · J. T. Matta🇺🇸 · D. Patel🇺🇸 · T. Peach🇺🇸 · J. Hoffman🇺🇸 · K. Yoshida🇯🇵 · M. Itoh🇯🇵 · M. Fujiwara🇯🇵 · K. Hara🇯🇵 · H. Hashimoto🇯🇵 · K. Nakanishi🇯🇵 and 10 other authors
The isoscalar giant monopole resonance (ISGMR) strength distribution in Mg has been determined from background-free inelastic scattering of 386-MeV particles at extreme forward angles, including 0. The ISGMR strength distribution has been observed for the first time to have a two-peak structure in a light-mass nucleus. This splitting of ISGMR strength is explained well by microscopic theory in terms of the prolate deformation of the ground state of Mg.
- Comments:
- 5 pages, 4 figures; to be published in Phys. Lett. B
- Subjects:
- Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
- arXiv:
- 1507.03639 [pdf]