22-30 July 2021
North-West University
Africa/Johannesburg timezone
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Transfer reactions to populate the PDR in 96Mo

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20m
Potchefstroom Campus (North-West University)

Potchefstroom Campus

North-West University

Poster Presentation Track B - Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics

Speaker

Ms Thuthukile Khumalo (Wits/iThemba LABS)

Description

The pygmy dipole resonance (PDR) is a cluster of 1- states around and below the neutron separation energy and has gained traction in nuclear structure studies. The microscopic nature of the PDR is still an open question in particular, whether these 1- states are of single-particle or collective nature. The study here presented is a first attempt to investigate the single-particle or the collective nature of these 1- states by exploiting the sensitivity of one-particle transfer reactions to excite single-particle states. The measurements on transfer reactions (p,d) and (d,p) were performed on two different targets to populate the 96Mo residual nucleus. The ejectiles were detected, identified and momentum-analyzed by the MAGNEX spectrometer and its focal-plane detector which is installed at the Laboratori Nazionali del Sud of Instituto di Fisica Nucleare in Catania. In this talk, the data reduction process of the (p,d) reaction will be presented together with some preliminary results.

This work is based on the research supported in part by the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa grant number 118846.

Apply to be considered for a student ; award (Yes / No)?

Yes

Level for award;(Hons, MSc, PhD, N/A)?

PhD

Primary authors

Dr Luna Pellegri (iThemba LABS/Wits) Prof. Mathis Wiedeking (iThemba LABS/Wits) Ms Thuthukile Khumalo (Wits/iThemba LABS)

Co-authors

Dr Alessandro Spatafora (INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy/Universita di Catania, Catania, Italy) Dr Diana Carbone (INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy) Prof. Francesco Cappuzzello (INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy/Universita di Catania, Catania, Italy) Dr Manuela Cavallaro (INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy)

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