Nuclear physics research

    Shell evolution far from stability from oxygen to calcium

Experiment E421 (completed), on ²⁵Ne, Ganil, Caen

Experiment E450 (completed), on ³⁶Ca, Ganil, Caen

    Neutron-rich nickel and copper

Experiment PH106 (completed), Lisol, Louvain-la-Neuve: "Nuclear Structure of Neutron-rich Nickel Isotopes Produced by a Chemically Selective Laser Ion Source: towards ⁷⁸Ni"

• "Evolution of Nuclear Structure towards ⁷⁸Ni Investigated by the Beta Decay of Laser-Ionised ^68-74Ni"
  PhD thesis, Louvain (1999)
• "Beta Decay of ^68-74Ni and Level Structure of Neutron-Rich Cu Isotopes"
  Physical Review Letters 81, 3100 (1998)
• "Monopole Migration in ^69,71,73Cu Observed from the Beta Decay of Laser-Ionised ^68-74Ni"
  Physical Review C 64, 054308 (2001)

Experiment IS412 (completed), Rex-Isolde, Geneva: "Coulomb excitation of neutron-rich nuclei between the N=40 and N=50 shell gaps"

Experiment IS435 (completed), Rex-Isolde, Geneva: "Coulomb excitation of odd-mass and odd-odd Cu isotopes"

Experiment E551 (completed), Ganil, Caen: "Exploring single-particle and collective low-lying states in ⁷³Cu with the plunger technique"

• "Recherche de la vibration géante de paires et Mesure du temps de vie du premier état excité 2+ du ⁷⁴Zn par méthode plunger"
  PhD thesis B Mouginot, Orsay (2010)
• "First direct lifetime measurement of the 2+ state in Zn: New evidence for a shape transition between N=40 and N=42 close to Z=28"
  Physical Review C 85, 054321 (2012)

Experiment E552 (completed), Ganil, Caen: "Weakening of the Z=28 gap by the tensor force in neutron-rich copper isotopes"

• "Single-particle states in neutron-rich ⁶⁹Cu and ⁷¹Cu by means of the (d,³He) transfer reaction"
  PhD thesis P Morfouace, Orsay (2014)
• "Evolution of single-particle strength in neutron-rich ⁷¹Cu"
  Physics Letters B 751, 306 (2015)

Experiment RIBF118 Seastar (completed), RIBF, Tokyo: "Shell Evolution and Search for Two-Plus Energies at RIBF"

• "Nuclear structure in the vicinity of ⁷⁸Ni: in-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy of ⁷⁹Cu through proton knockout"
  PhD thesis L Olivier, Orsay (2017)
• "Persistence of the Z=28 Shell Gap Around ⁷⁸Ni: First Spectroscopy of ⁷⁹Cu"
  Physical Review Letters 119, 192501 (2017)

Experiment RIBF181 Hicari (analysis ongoing), RIBF, Tokyo: "Gamma-ray spectroscopy in the vicinity of double-magic ⁷⁸Ni"

    Shape coexistence in the lead region

Experiment IS387 (completed), Isolde, Cern: "Beta-decay study of neutron-rich Tl, Pb, and Bi by means of the pulsed-release technique and resonant laser ionisation"

Experiment IS407 (completed), Isolde, Cern: "Study of the neutron deficient Pb and Bi isotopes by simultaneous atomic and nuclear spectroscopy"

Experiment IS456 (completed), Isolde, Cern: "Study of polonium isotopes ground state properties by simultaneous atomic and nuclear spectroscopy"

Experiment IS466 (completed), Isolde, Cern: "Identification and systematical studies of the electron-capture delayed fission in the lead region"

    Serge Franchoo
    IJClab, F-91405 Orsay, France

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