Abstract
Results are presented from a one-neutron knockout experiment at relativistic energies of ≈ 420AMeV on 51-55Sc using the GSI Fragment Separator as a two-stage magnetic spectrometer and the Miniball array for gamma-ray detection. Inclusive longitudinal momentum distributions and cross-sections were measured enabling the determination of the contributions corresponding to knockout from the νp1/2, νp3/2, (L = 1) and νf7/2, νf5/2 (L = 3) neutron orbitals. The observed L = 1 and L = 3 contributions are compared with theoretical cross-sections using eikonal knockout theory and spectroscopic factors from shell model calculations using the GXPF1A interaction. The measured inclusive knockout cross-sections generally follow the trends expected theoretically and given by the spectroscopic strength predicted from the shell model calculations. However, the deduced L = 1 cross-sections are generally 30-40% higher while the L = 3 contributions are about a factor of two smaller than predicted. This points to a promotion of neutrons from the νf7/2 to the νp3/2 orbital indicating a weakening of the N = 28 shell gap in these nuclei. While this is not predicted for the phenomenological GXPF1A interaction such a weakening is predicted by recent calculations using realistic low-momentum interactions Vlowk obtained by evolving a chiral N3LO nucleon-nucleon potential.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 191 |
Pages (from-to) | 1-10 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | European Physical Journal A |
Volume | 48 |
Issue number | 12 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2012 |