A. Sanetullaev

Neutron-proton asymmetry dependence of spectroscopic factors in Ar isotopes

Spectroscopic factors have been extracted for proton-rich 34Ar and neutron-rich 46Ar using the (p, d) neutron transfer reaction. The experimental results show little reduction of the ground state neutron spectroscopic factor of the proton-rich nucleus 34Ar compared to that of 46Ar. The results suggest that correlations, which generally reduce such spectroscopic factors, do not depend strongly on the neutron-proton asymmetry of the nucleus in this isotopic region as was reported in knockout reactions. The present results are consistent with results from systematic studies of transfer reactions but inconsistent with the trends observed in knockout reaction measurements.

Democratic Decay of 6Be Exposed by Correlations

The interaction of an E/A=70-MeV (7)Be beam with a Be target was used to populate levels in (6)Be following neutron knockout reactions. The three-body decay of the ground and first excited states into the α+p+p exit channel were detected in the High Resolution Array. Precise three-body correlations extracted from the experimental data allowed us to obtain insight into the mechanism of the three-body democratic decay. The correlation data are in good agreement with a three-cluster-model calculation and thus validate this theoretical approach over a broad energy range.

Democratic Decay ofBe6Exposed by Correlations

The interaction of an E/A=70-MeV (7)Be beam with a Be target was used to populate levels in (6)Be following neutron knockout reactions. The three-body decay of the ground and first excited states into the α+p+p exit channel were detected in the High Resolution Array. Precise three-body correlations extracted from the experimental data allowed us to obtain insight into the mechanism of the three-body democratic decay. The correlation data are in good agreement with a three-cluster-model calculation and thus validate this theoretical approach over a broad energy range.

Probing effective nucleon masses with heavy-ion collisions

It has been generally accepted that momentum-dependent potentials for neutrons and protons at energies well away from the Fermi surface cause both to behave as if their inertial masses are effectively 70% of the vacuum values. This similarity in effective masses may no longer hold in dense neutron-rich regions within neutron stars, core-collapse supernovas, and nuclear collisions. There differences in the momentum-dependent symmetry potentials may cause neutron and proton effective masses to differ significantly. We investigate this effect by measuring the energy spectra of neutrons, protons, and charged particles emitted in

Probing elastic and inelastic breakup contributions to intermediate-energy two-proton removal reactions

^{112}\mathrm{Sn}+^{112}\mathrm{Sn}

Neutron spectroscopic factors of 55Ni hole-states from (p,d) transfer reactions

and

Angular dependence in proton-proton correlation functions in central 40Ca+40Ca and 48Ca+48Ca reactions

^{124}\mathrm{Sn}+^{124}\mathrm{Sn}

On determining dead layer and detector thicknesses for a position-sensitive silicon detector

collisions at

Elastic breakup cross sections of well-bound nucleons

{E}_{\mathrm{beam}}/A=50

Two-proton decay of the 6Be ground state and the double isobaric analog of 11Li

and 120 MeV with precision sufficient to distinguish, in principle, between effective interactions with very different values of the neutron and proton effective masses. These data and model comparisons point the way towards future advances in our capabilities to understand the density and momentum dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy.