Beckers, Marcel (2023). Development of a new compact three-foil plunger device and Lifetime measurements using the Recoil Distance Doppler-shift method. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.
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This thesis presents the development of a new compact differential three-foil plunger (Cologne Compact Differential Plunger - CoCoDiff) for the measurement of lifetimes of excited states in nuclei with the Recoil Distance Doppler-shift (RDDS) method as well as auxiliary techniques and methods to aid the usage of this new plunger and of other plunger devices. The new plunger apparatus has been commissioned in an experiment on level lifetimes in 50Cr which was carried out at the Cologne FN tandem accelerator. There, lifetimes of the first 2+ and 4 +states have been measured with good precision which match with literature values and shell-model calculations. To enhance the precision of plunger experiments that need absolute foil separations, a new method to measure these has been developed, using an optical sensor. This method has been tested using an experiment on known level lifetimes in 181Ta also conducted in Cologne. Furthermore, an RDDS experiment on level lifetimes in 144Ce was carried out, which is a candidate for octupole deformation. Lifetimes of the first 2+, 4+, 6+ and 3- states haven been measured with good precision, the latter three for the first time. From these lifetimes, B(E2) and B(E1) transition strengths could be determined that give further proof for possible octupole deformation. Additionally, the lifetime of the 3- state is important for a possible future Coulomb excitation measurement in search of the yet unobserved 3- -> 0+ transition. Lastly, level lifetimes of the first 2+ and 4+ states in 60Ni have been measured using the RDDS method. They shed light into a prior confusing situation of contradicting literature values that allowed for no clear physical interpretation of the onset of collectivity of Ni isotopes regarding the tentative N=40 sub-shell closure.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD thesis) | ||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-701847 | ||||||||
Date: | 2023 | ||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences > Department of Physics > Institute for Nuclear Physics | ||||||||
Subjects: | Physics | ||||||||
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Date of oral exam: | 24 April 2023 | ||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/70184 |
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