Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Experiment
Scientific paper
2005-05-13
Phys.Rev.Lett.94:232501,2005
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Experiment
4 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in PRL
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.232501
The nucleus 54Zn has been observed for the first time in an experiment at the SISSI/LISE3 facility of GANIL in the quasi-fragmentation of a 58Ni beam at 74.5 MeV/nucleon in a natNi target. The fragments were analysed by means of the ALPHA-LISE3 separator and implanted in a silicon-strip detector where correlations in space and time between implantation and subsequent decay events allowed us to generate almost background free decay spectra for about 25 different nuclei at the same time. Eight 54Zn implantation events were observed. From the correlated decay events, the half-life of 54Zn is determined to be 3.2 +1.8/-0.8 ms. Seven of the eight implantations are followed by two-proton emission with a decay energy of 1.48(2) MeV. The decay energy and the partial half-life are compared to model predictions and allow for a test of these two-proton decay models.
Adimi N.
Aksouh F.
Barker F. C.
Bey A.
Blank Basil
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