RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science Radioactive Isotope Physics Group

Group Director: Hiroyoshi Sakurai (D.Sc.)

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Research Summary

This Group conducts programs at “RI Beam Factory (RIBF)”, and explores exotic nuclear structures and dynamics in exotic nuclei with largely imbalanced proton and neutron numbers. Our aim is to develop new experimental techniques utilizing fast radioactive isotope beams at RIBF, to discover new phenomena and properties in exotic nuclei. The Laboratory is focusing three major subjects; shell evolution of very neutron-rich nuclei, the r-process path and equation-of-state in asymmetric nuclear matter. The Laboratory has initiated international collaborations for in-beam gamma spectroscopy, decay spectroscopy and heavy-ion induced reactions, and has formed a discussion forum for next generation gamma detectors.

Main Research Fields

Mathematical & Physical Sciences

Related Research Fields

Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering

Keywords

Radioactive Isotope Beam
Exotic Nuclei
Gamma Spectroscopy
Heavy-ion induced Reactions

Selected Publications

1.Wang H., Otsu H., Sakurai H., et al.:
"Spallation reaction study for fission products in nuclear waste: Cross section measurements for Cs-137 and Sr-90 on proton and deuteron"
Phys. Lett. B 754, 104-108 (2016)
2.Shane R., McIntosh A.B., Isobe T., et al.:
"S pi RIT: A time-projection chamber for symmetry-energy studies"
Nucl. Instrum. Methods A 784, 513-517 (2015)
3.Lorusso G., Nishimura S., et al:
"beta-Decay Half-Lives of 110 Neutron-Rich Nuclei across the N=82 Shell Gap: Implications for the Mechanism and Universality of the Astrophysical r Process"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 192501 (2015)
4.Steppenbeck D., et al.
"Evidence for a new nuclear 'magic number' from the level structure of Ca-54"
Nature 502, 207 (2013)
5.Nishimura S., Li Z, Watanabe H., Yoshinaga K, et al.:
"Beta-Decay Half-Lives of Very Neutron-Rich Kr to Tc Isotopes on the Boundary of the r-Process Path: An Indication of Fast r-Matter Flow"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 052502 (2011)
6.Doornenbal P, Scheit H, Aoi N, Takeuchi S, et al.:
"Spectroscopy of Ne-32 and the "Island of Inversion""
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 152503 (2009)
7.Suzuki D., Iwasaki H., Otsu H., et al.:
"Breakdown of the Z=8 Shell Closure in Unbound O-12 and its Mirror Symmetry"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 152503 (2009)
8.Ong, H. J., Imai, N., Suzuki D., Iwasaki H., Sakurai H., Onishi T.K., Suzuki M.K., Ota S., Takeuchi S., Nakao T., et al.:
"Lifetime measurements of first excited states in C-16, C-18"
Physical Review C 78, 014308 (2008)
9.Yoneda K., Sakurai H. et al.:
"Deformation of 34Mg studied via in-beam -ray spectroscopy using RI beam fragmentation"
Physics Letters B 499, 233-237 (2001).
10.Sakurai, H., Lukyanov, S.M., Notani, M., Aoi, N., Beaumel, D., Fukuda, N., Hirai, M., Ideguchi, E., Imai, N., Ishihara, M., Iwasaki, H., Kubo, T., Kusaka, K., Kumagai, H., Nakamura, T., Ogawa, H., Penionzhkevich, Yu.E., Teranishi, T., Watanabe, Y.X., Yone.:
"Evidence for particle stability of 31F and particle instability of 25N and 28O"
Physics Letters B 448, 180-184 (1999).