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Mărginean N, Little D, Tsunoda Y, Leoni S, Janssens RVF, Fornal B, Otsuka T, Michelagnoli C, Stan L, Crespi FCL, Costache C, Lica R, Sferrazza M, Turturica A, Ayangeakaa AD, Auranen K, Barani M, Bender PC, Bottoni S, Boromiza M, Bracco A, Călinescu S, Campbell CM, Carpenter MP, Chowdhury P, Ciemała M, Cieplicka-Oryǹczak N, Cline D, Clisu C, Crawford HL, Dinescu IE, Dudouet J, Filipescu D, Florea N, Forney AM, Fracassetti S, Gade A, Gheorghe I, Hayes AB, Harca I, Henderson J, Ionescu A, Iskra ŁW, Jentschel M, Kandzia F, Kim YH, Kondev FG, Korschinek G, Köster U, Krzysiek M, Lauritsen T, Li J, Mărginean R, Maugeri EA, Mihai C, Mihai RE, Mitu A, Mutti P, Negret A, Niţă CR, Olăcel A, Oprea A, Pascu S, Petrone C, Porzio C, Rhodes D, Seweryniak D, Schumann D, Sotty C, Stolze SM, Şuvăilă R, Toma S, Ujeniuc S, Walters WB, Wu CY, Wu J, Zhu S, Ziliani S. Shape Coexistence at Zero Spin in ^{64}Ni Driven by the Monopole Tensor Interaction. Phys Rev Lett 2020; 125:102502. [PMID: 32955302 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.125.102502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2020] [Accepted: 07/31/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
Abstract
The low-spin structure of the semimagic ^{64}Ni nucleus has been considerably expanded: combining four experiments, several 0^{+} and 2^{+} excited states were identified below 4.5 MeV, and their properties established. The Monte Carlo shell model accounts for the results and unveils an unexpectedly complex landscape of coexisting shapes: a prolate 0^{+} excitation is located at a surprisingly high energy (3463 keV), with a collective 2^{+} state 286 keV above it, the first such observation in Ni isotopes. The evolution in excitation energy of the prolate minimum across the neutron N=40 subshell gap highlights the impact of the monopole interaction and its variation in strength with N.
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Affiliation(s)
- N Mărginean
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3255, USA
- Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708-2308, USA
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- Center for Nuclear Study, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, I-20133 Milano, Italy
- INFN sezione di Milano via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3255, USA
- Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708-2308, USA
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- Institute of Nuclear Physics, PAN, 31-342 Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
- RIKEN Nishina Center, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
- KU Leuven, Instituut voor Kern- en Stralingsfysica, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
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- Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), 71 Avenue des Martyrs, 38042 Grenoble, France
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, I-20133 Milano, Italy
- INFN sezione di Milano via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Département de Physique, Université libre de Bruxelles, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Department of Physics, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland 21402, USA
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- Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, I-20133 Milano, Italy
- INFN sezione di Milano via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, Italy
- Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), 71 Avenue des Martyrs, 38042 Grenoble, France
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- Department of Physics and Applied Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts 01854, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, I-20133 Milano, Italy
- INFN sezione di Milano via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, I-20133 Milano, Italy
- INFN sezione di Milano via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Department of Physics and Applied Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts 01854, USA
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- Institute of Nuclear Physics, PAN, 31-342 Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, F-69622, Villeurbanne, France
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, I-20133 Milano, Italy
- INFN sezione di Milano via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
- National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- National Nuclear Data Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- INFN sezione di Milano via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), 71 Avenue des Martyrs, 38042 Grenoble, France
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- Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), 71 Avenue des Martyrs, 38042 Grenoble, France
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- Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), 71 Avenue des Martyrs, 38042 Grenoble, France
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- Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Technische Universität München, 80333 München, Germany
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- Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), 71 Avenue des Martyrs, 38042 Grenoble, France
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- Institute of Nuclear Physics, PAN, 31-342 Kraków, Poland
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- Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), 71 Avenue des Martyrs, 38042 Grenoble, France
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, I-20133 Milano, Italy
- INFN sezione di Milano via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
- National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- National Nuclear Data Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, I-20133 Milano, Italy
- INFN sezione di Milano via Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, Italy
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Leoni S, Fornal B, Mărginean N, Sferrazza M, Tsunoda Y, Otsuka T, Bocchi G, Crespi FCL, Bracco A, Aydin S, Boromiza M, Bucurescu D, Cieplicka-Oryǹczak N, Costache C, Călinescu S, Florea N, Ghiţă DG, Glodariu T, Ionescu A, Iskra ŁW, Krzysiek M, Mărginean R, Mihai C, Mihai RE, Mitu A, Negreţ A, Niţă CR, Olăcel A, Oprea A, Pascu S, Petkov P, Petrone C, Porzio G, Şerban A, Sotty C, Stan L, Ştiru I, Stroe L, Şuvăilă R, Toma S, Turturică A, Ujeniuc S, Ur CA. Multifaceted Quadruplet of Low-Lying Spin-Zero States in ^{66}Ni: Emergence of Shape Isomerism in Light Nuclei. Phys Rev Lett 2017; 118:162502. [PMID: 28474931 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.118.162502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
Abstract
A search for shape isomers in the ^{66}Ni nucleus was performed, following old suggestions of various mean-field models and recent ones, based on state-of-the-art Monte Carlo shell model (MCSM), all considering ^{66}Ni as the lightest nuclear system with shape isomerism. By employing the two-neutron transfer reaction induced by an ^{18}O beam on a ^{64}Ni target, at the sub-Coulomb barrier energy of 39 MeV, all three lowest-excited 0^{+} states in ^{66}Ni were populated and their γ decay was observed by γ-coincidence technique. The 0^{+} states lifetimes were assessed with the plunger method, yielding for the 0_{2}^{+}, 0_{3}^{+}, and 0_{4}^{+} decay to the 2_{1}^{+} state the B(E2) values of 4.3, 0.1, and 0.2 Weisskopf units (W.u.), respectively. MCSM calculations correctly predict the existence of all three excited 0^{+} states, pointing to the oblate, spherical, and prolate nature of the consecutive excitations. In addition, they account for the hindrance of the E2 decay from the prolate 0_{4}^{+} to the spherical 2_{1}^{+} state, although overestimating its value. This result makes ^{66}Ni a unique nuclear system, apart from ^{236,238}U, in which a retarded γ transition from a 0^{+} deformed state to a spherical configuration is observed, resembling a shape-isomerlike behavior.
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- S Leoni
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano, I-20133 Milano, Italy
- INFN sezione di Milano via Celoria 16, 20133, Milano, Italy
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- Institute of Nuclear Physics, PAN, 31-342 Kraków, Poland
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Département de Physique, Université libre de Bruxelles, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
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- Center for Nuclear Study, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Center for Nuclear Study, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
- Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
- National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
- Instituut voor Kern- en Stralingsfysica, KU Leuven, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano, I-20133 Milano, Italy
- INFN sezione di Milano via Celoria 16, 20133, Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano, I-20133 Milano, Italy
- INFN sezione di Milano via Celoria 16, 20133, Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano, I-20133 Milano, Italy
- INFN sezione di Milano via Celoria 16, 20133, Milano, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of Aksaray, Adana E-90 Karayolu Üzeri, Aksaray, Turkey
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
- University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics, Bucharest-Magurele, 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- INFN sezione di Milano via Celoria 16, 20133, Milano, Italy
- Institute of Nuclear Physics, PAN, 31-342 Kraków, Poland
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
- University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics, Bucharest-Magurele, 077125, Romania
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- Institute of Nuclear Physics, PAN, 31-342 Kraków, Poland
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- Institute of Nuclear Physics, PAN, 31-342 Kraków, Poland
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano, I-20133 Milano, Italy
- INFN sezione di Milano via Celoria 16, 20133, Milano, Italy
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
- University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics, Bucharest-Magurele, 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest 077125, Romania
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- Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics, IFIN-HH, Bucharest, 077125, Romania
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