利用中高能破碎和敲出反应研究非稳定核结构

中高能区的破碎和敲出反应,由于机制相对简单、对核的表面敏感、理论处理比较成熟等原因,在非稳定核的晕结构、壳移动等奇特性质研究中发挥了独到作用。针对次级束流强度较弱、能散较大等特点,实验上发展和应用了逆运动学有效立体角完全测量、轻重靶结合、高精度消色差磁谱仪、前向中子谱仪、在束γ测量等技术手段,大大提升了实验的探测能力和选择性。从物理问题探索和实验路线演变的角度,回顾了非稳定核破碎和敲出反应的发展过程与启示,并探讨未来的走向。     

Study of the structure of unstable nuclei through the reaction experiments

Along with the development of the radioactive nuclear beam facility, the study of the structure of unstable nuclei has progressed rapidly over the last few decades. Due to the weakly binding property, the structure information of the unstable nuclei comes primarily from the scattering or reaction experiments. Therefore it would be very important to understand clearly the reaction mechanism involved in the experiment. We outlined here the major reaction mechanisms which are adequate to the study of unstable nuclei, with the focus on the new phenomena and methods in comparison with those with traditional stable nucleus beam. Especially emphasized are the breakup and knockout reactions, developed as accurate tools for spectroscopy investigation into the nuclear structure with low intensity secondary beam. Couplings of the breakup channel to the elastic scattering and the fusion and transfer reactions are also reviewed.     

Electromagnetic moments of unstable nuclei studied with polarized projectile fragments

Phenomenon of ejectile spin polarization in the projectile fragmentation reaction was exploited as a tool to produce polarized radioactive nuclei. The polarized unstable nuclei were subjected to the β-detected NMR meaurements, and the magnetic moments and electric quadrupole moments were determined for several neutron-rich light nuclei. The comparison of the experimental results with theoretical predictions shows that the nuclear moments provide useful test of models for nuclear structure and interaction in the region of light-mass unstable nuclei.     

Study of the structure of borromean nucleus 17Ne

The 17Ne nucleus is a possible candidate with a two-proton borromean halo structure. Since the theoretical model is difficult to handle the three-body system, it is difficult to determine the two-proton halo structure in 17Ne. In the present research, we try to study the breakup reaction of 17Ne. For the Borromean nuclei, one-proton knockout results in an unstable nucleus which is decaying further by proton emission. This process will result in an angular correlation between the direction of the aligned recoiling unstable nucleus and its decay products. The angular correlations can give us information about the configuration of the valence proton in the 17Ne. Furthermore, theoretical calculations indicate that the momentum distributions of 16F c.m are sensitive to the structure of the halo in 17Ne. Thus the measurement of momentum distributions of 16F c.m may also give us conclusive information on the structure of 17Ne. The present experiment has been done at IMP in Lanzhou using the radioactive beam 17Ne at 30.8 MeV/u on a 43mg/cm2 12C target. The data analysis is under procedure and the primary results are provided.     

Recoil proton tagged knockout reaction for He

We report for the first time the discrimination of the core fragment knockout and valence nucleon knockout reaction mechanisms at medium energy range, by the use of the recoil proton tagging technique. Intense ⁸He beams at 82.3 MeV/u were supplied by the RIPS beam line at RIKEN, and impinged on both hydrogen and carbon targets. Recoil protons were detected in coincidence with the forward moving core fragments and neutrons. The core fragment knockout mechanism is identified through the polar angle correlation and checked by various kinematics relations. This mechanism may be used to extract the cluster structure information of unstable nuclei. On the other hand, with the selection of the tagged valence nucleon knockout mechanism, a narrower peak of ⁷He ground state is obtained. The extracted neutron spectroscopic factor Sn=0.512(18) is relatively smaller than the no-tagged one, and is in good agreement with the prediction of ab initio Green?s function Monte Carlo calculations.     

Study of the structure of unstable nuclei through the reaction experiments

Along with the development of the radioactive nuclear beam facility, the study of the structure of unstable nuclei has progressed rapidly over the last few decades. Due to the weakly binding property, the structure information of the unstable nuclei comes primarily from the scattering or reaction experiments. Therefore it would be very important to understand clearly the reaction mechanism involved in the experiment. We outlined here the major reaction mechanisms which are adequate to the study of unstable ...     

Laser applications in nuclear physics: Present and future

The use of lasers for nuclear physics research is widespread and growing rapidly. The major impact in nuclear structure research has come from nuclear size and shape determinations for nuclei far from stability via high resolution isotope shift measurements. In addition, systematic data on nuclear magnetic and quadrupole moments have been obtained via the hyperfine splitting resolved in laser fluorescence studies of atomic spectra in both stable and unstable systems. The tunability, high intensity and inherent polarization of laser light can be used to polarize atomic nuclei for nuclear reaction studies. The rapid efficient polarization of unstable nuclei with lasers also presents opportunities for new research in nuclear physics. In this paper the physics of the laser interaction for the studies indicated will be introduced. Some examples of work completed and in progress will be presented primarily from on-line laser studies at charged particle accelerators. Extensions of current research, particularly with respect to possible studies of short-lived nuclei, are discussed and the synergistic effects of certain advances in quantum electronics and nuclear physics described.     

Spectroscopic Measurement in 9He and 12Be

Spectroscopy for neutron-rich nuclei ⁹He and ¹²Be has been performed by means of heavy-ion double charge exchange (HIDCX) (¹⁸O, ¹⁸Ne) reaction on stable target nuclei ⁹Be and ¹²C, respectively. Several clear peaks in ¹²Be at low excitation energy region even above neutron separation energy have been observed in one-shot measurement, whereas no prominent signals of ⁹He have been observed owing to the small cross section. It is shown that the HIDCX reaction is a new powerful spectroscopic tool for study of unstable neutron-rich nuclei.     

Experimental nuclear astrophysics with radioactive ion beams

Reactions involving unstable nuclei play an important role in many astrophysical sites. Radioactive ion beams provide a unique tool to investigate the structure of such unstable nuclei as well as the cross sections for many reactions of astrophysical relevance. This paper provides a brief survey of some recent results in experimental nuclear astrophysics with Radioactive Ion Beams, particularly for processes which take place during explosive hydrogen burning in novae and X-ray bursts. Some prospects for future studies at next generation facilities are also briefly discussed.     

不稳定原子核β衰变强度的实验测量方法

原子核的β衰变是指原子核放射出β粒子或俘获电子而进行的转变。对β衰变强度S_β(E)的精确测量,对探索不稳定原子核的结构、揭秘恒星核合成过程、验证β衰变理论等方面均存在着重要意义。实验上,为了测量β衰变强度,一种方法是利用β-γ符合测量或者全吸收谱仪对β衰变产物进行直接测量,这种方法可以给出子核在Q_β窗口内的衰变信息。另一种方法是利用在中等能区(100~400 MeV/u)进行的电荷交换反应,如(p,n)或(3He,t),通过微分截面的高精度测量获得子核的β衰变强度,这种方法可以用于研究子核在Q_β窗外的衰变强度,但是对束流强度有较高的要求,尚无法系统研究产额较低的不稳定原子核。有鉴于此,本文提出对不稳定核素的电荷交换反应总截面进行系统测量,结合核反应理论,这种方法有望约束不稳定核素在质子发射阈下的Gamow-Teller跃迁的总强度。最后简要介绍了已开展和计划开展的工作。     

弱束缚原子核引起的熔合反应机制研究

弱束缚原子核引起的熔合反应机制研究是近几十年中实验核物理研究的重要课题之一。相比于放射性核束,加速器提供的稳定弱束缚原子核束流的强度要高几个数量级,利用稳定弱束缚原子核作为弹核进行反应机制的研究,可以在保证统计性和准确性的基础上,深入研究原子核的破裂、转移等反应道对熔合过程的耦合作用。已有很多实验数据表明,在库仑位垒附近,弱束缚原子核引发的熔合反应有很多有趣的现象,例如完全熔合截面的“垒下增强”和“垒上压低”。本文主要回顾近年来弱束缚原子核“垒上压低”的研究结果,并探讨造成“垒上压低”的可能原因。完全熔合截面“垒上压低”的主要原因是弱束缚原子核在进入熔合位垒之前发生破裂,从而降低了完全熔合反应道的入射通量。同时,实验研究表明完全熔合截面压低的程度可能与靶核质量数以及靶核结构相关。目前,在实验上对弱束缚原子核引起的熔合反应研究主要有3种测量方法,分别为$\gamma$射线测量方法、带电粒子测量方法以及带电粒子-$\gamma$射线符合测量的方法。其中,带电粒子-$\gamma$射线符合测量的方法在反应道鉴别方面具有明显的优势。本文对这3种测量方法进行了概要介绍,并就国内外对运用这3种方法开展的研究进行了介绍,包括本研究组在此方面的研究工作。此外,对弱束缚原子核引起的熔合反应近期在理论方面的研究工作也做了些介绍。     

A method of space-time correlation functions for describing the quasifree knockout of valence neutrons from a halo nucleus

Expressions for the distribution functions of products of the valence neutron knockout reaction (p, p’n) for halo nuclei were obtained using a method of space-time correlation functions. An analysis of the efficiency of this reaction as a method for investigating the structure of a neutron halo is given. The fraction of events in which the internal motion in a neutron complex remains unperturbed in the case of the quasifree knockout of the complex from a halo nucleus by protons with an energy of several tens of MeV was calculated. An expression for the spectrum of outgoing protons was obtained and analyzed.     

气体喷嘴反冲传输技术及在核科学中的应用

气体喷嘴反冲传输技术是继“跑兔”装置之后发展和完善起来的适合于短寿命核素研究的一种快速而有效的在线脱束方法。 它能够将短寿命核反应产物传输至远离高辐射区的低本底场所进行收集和测量。 该技术已在加速器和反应堆上得到了广泛的应用, 是一种研究核反应、 核谱学和合成与鉴别新元素、 新核素的一种不可缺少的基本实验技术和工具。 描述了气嘴系统的结构、 基本原理、 设计要求以及它的主要特性, 特别是对系统的气体动力学机制以及各种参数对系统特性的影响等进行了讨论。 最后, 综述了它在核物理、 核化学以及质谱学等领域的应用情况, 并且给出了几个应用的典型例子。 The gas jet recoil transport technique is developed and improved as a new rapid and effective on line and off beam method following “rabbit” apparatus in the study of short lives nuclei. It can transport the short half life nuclear reaction products far from high radioactive area for collection and measurement at low background area. This technique has been widely used in the researches with accelerator and reactor. It is indispensable basic experimental technology and tool applied to nuclear reaction, spectroscopy, as well as synthesis and identification of new elements and nuclei. The basic principle, structure, design requirement and main characteristics of gas jet system are described in this paper, especially the mechanism of gas dynamics and the effect of several parameters on the system properties are discussed. Finally, the applications of this technique in several fields such as nuclear physics, nuclear chemistry and mass spectroscopy etc. are comprehensively represented. Several typical applications are also illustrated.     

NUSTAR and the status of the R3B project at FAIR

Over the last 15 years, reaction experiments on fixed targets using secondary beams of high energy have developed a potential as exploratory tool to study the properties of nuclei far from stability. NUSTAR (nuclear structure, astrophysics and reactions) is a collaboration of the international nuclear structure and astrophysics community with the aim to further explore this method at the FAIR Facility. Within the FAIR complex, NUSTAR defines a facility where the heart is the super-fragment separator (Super-FRS), which serves three experimental branches: The RING, the LOW- and the HIGH-ENERGY branches.     

Reactions with fast radioactive beams of neutron-rich nuclei

The neutron dripline has presently been reached only for the lightest nuclei up to the element oxygen. In this region of light neutron-rich nuclei, scattering experiments are feasible even for dripline nuclei by utilizing high-energy secondary beams produced by fragmentation. In the present article, reactions of high-energy radioactive beams will be exemplified using recent experimental results mainly derived from measurements of breakup reactions performed at the LAND and FRS facilities at GSI and at the S800 spectrometer at the NSCL. Nuclear and electromagnetically induced reactions allow probing different aspects of nuclear structure at the limits of stability related to the neutron-proton asymmetry and the weak binding close to the dripline. Properties of the valence-neutron wave functions are studied in the one-neutron knockout reaction, revealing the changes of shell structure when going from the beta-stability line to more asymmetric loosely bound neutron-rich systems. The vanishing of the N = 8 shell gap for neutron-rich systems like ¹¹Li and ¹²Be, or the new closed N = 14, 16 shells for the oxygen isotopes are examples. The continuum of weakly bound nuclei and halo states can be studied by inelastic scattering. The dipole response, for instance, is found to change dramatically when going away from the valley of stability. A redistribution of the dipole strength towards lower excitation energies is observed for neutron-rich nuclei, which partly might be due to a new collective excitation mode related to the neutron-proton asymmetry. Halo nuclei, in particular, show strong dipole transitions to the continuum at the threshold, being directly related to the ground-state properties of the projectile. Finally, an outlook on future experimental prospects is given.     

核核碰撞中不稳定轻核的方位角各向异性发射

利用符合的粒子粒子关联测量，研究了２５ＭｅＶ／ｕ^４０Ａｒ＋^１９７Ａｕ反应中不稳定轻核的在平面发射和出平面发射．对于中速的不稳定轻核，观测到在平面发射几率增大，这表明该反应系统中存在旋转效应．该现象随碰撞参数增大更为强烈，而随着不稳定核激发态能量的升高稍有变弱     

Structure and reactions of halo nuclei: An entangled approach

Halo nuclei are characterised by their weak binding, large spatial extent and hence a quite pronounced, yet highly correlated, few-body structure. This is typically in terms of a well-defined core plus one or more valence nucleons. Over the past decade the properties of halo nuclei have been studied theoretically using a range of reaction models, many of which having served us well for half a century or more in the study of less exotic, “mean-field”, nuclei. However, it is now clear that for many reactions with halo nuclei, it is not appropriate to disentangle (factorise out) the structure information from the reaction information. That is, the few-body nature of these systems requires few-body reaction models in which the nuclear structure and reaction mechanisms are necessarily entangled. This talk will briefly review the physical assumptions made by various reaction models, and point to areas where progress is being made to extend their range of applicability in order to provide further insights into halo structure. Received: 21 March 2002 / Accepted: 16 May 2002 / Published online: 31 October 2002 RID="a" ID="a"e-mail: j.al-khalili@surrey.ac.uk     

Physics with loosely bound nuclei

The essential aspect of contemporary physics is to understand properties of nucleonic matter that constitutes the world around us. Over the years research in nuclear physics has provided strong guidance in understanding the basic principles of nuclear interactions. But, the scenario of nuclear physics changed drastically as the new generation of accelerators started providing more and more rare isotopes, which are away from the line of stability. These weakly bound nuclei are found to exhibit new forms of nuclear matter and unprecedented exotic behaviour. The low breakup thresholds of these rare nuclei are posing new challenges to both theory and experiments. Fortunately, nature has provided a few loosely bound stable nuclei that have been studied thoroughly for decades Attempts are being made to find a consistent picture for the unstable nuclei starting from their stable counterparts. Some significant differences in the structure and reaction mechanisms are found.     

Proton-neutron structure of collective excitations in 94Mo

Due to the recent development of radioactive beam production, various direct reaction studies in reversed kinematics have been made to investigate the behavior of the N = 20 shell closure in the neutron-rich region. Coulomb excitation, proton inelastic scattering, and fragmentation of unstable nuclei have been studied with γ-ray detection. Received: 21 March 2002 / Accepted: 16 May 2002 / Published online: 31 October 2002 RID="a" ID="a"e-mail: motobaya@rikkyo.ne.jp     

Neutron and Alpha Structure in Neutron Deficient Nuclei in Astrophysics

The paper includes discussions on the important role of neutron and alpha configurations in proton-rich nuclei in nuclear astrophysics in terms of nucleosynthesis under extremely high-temperature hydrogenburning conditions. The p-process, which is supposed to take place at the very early epoch of type II supernovae, has considerable neutrons and alphas together with protons. The alpha-induced reactions on proton-rich unstable nuclei in the light mass regions is expected to play a crucial role, but very few of them were investigated well yet because of the experimental difficulties. Specifically, I report our recent experimental effort for the breakout process from the pp-chain region, 7Be(α ,γ )11C(α ,p)14N under the p-process. The neutron-induced reactions on proton-rich nuclei, which is even more a challenging subject, were investigated previously for very few nuclei. One possible experimental method is the Trojan Horse Method (THM). We successfully have applied THM to the 18F(n, )14N reaction study with an unstable beam of 18F.