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Shape changes in the mirror nuclei $^{70}$Kr and $^{70}$Se

Nuclear Experiment 2021-03-17 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We studied the proton-rich Tz=1T_z=-1 nucleus 70^{70}Kr through inelastic scattering at intermediate energies in order to extract the reduced transition probability, B(E2;  0+2+)B(E2;\;0^+ \rightarrow 2^+). Comparison with the other members of the A=70A=70 isospin triplet, 70^{70}Br and 70^{70}Se, studied in the same experiment, shows a 3σ3\sigma deviation from the expected linearity of the electromagnetic matrix elements as a function of TzT_z. At present, no established nuclear structure theory can describe this observed deviation quantitatively. This is the first violation of isospin symmetry at this level observed in the transition matrix elements. A heuristic approach may explain the anomaly by a shape change between the mirror nuclei 70^{70}Kr and 70^{70}Se contrary to the model predictions.

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@article{arxiv.2101.02363,
  title  = {Shape changes in the mirror nuclei $^{70}$Kr and $^{70}$Se},
  author = {K. Wimmer and W. Korten and P. Doornenbal and T. Arici and P. Aguilera and A. Algora and T. Ando and H. Baba and B. Blank and A. Boso and S. Chen and A. Corsi and P. Davies and G. de Angelis and G. de France and J. -P. Delaroche and D. T. Doherty and J. Gerl and R. Gernhäuser and M. Girod and D. Jenkins and S. Koyama and T. Motobayashi and S. Nagamine and M. Niikura and A. Obertelli and J. Libert and D. Lubos and T. R. Rodríguez and B. Rubio and E. Sahin and T. Y. Saito and H. Sakurai and L. Sinclair and D. Steppenbeck and R. Taniuchi and R. Wadsworth and M. Zielinska},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.02363},
  year   = {2021}
}

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accepted PRL

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