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Experimental Studies Of Nuclei Near Doubly Magic 100sn And 78ni, Lucia Cartegni

Doctoral Dissertations

The experimental study of exotic nuclei is very important for our understanding of nuclear structure. In this work the nuclei near doubly magic nuclei 100Sn and 78Ni were studied in two separate experiments. The first one was performed at the Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility (HRIBF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This experiment searched for the alpha decay of 112Cs, in order to establish the proton separation energy of 104Sb. Although the alpha decay of 112Cs was not observed, the upper limit of the alpha branching ratio was set at 0.26%. The improved statistics enabled an improved half-lives measurement of …