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UNIVERSITETET I B E R G E N NUCLEAR SPECTROSCOPY OF Ca AND Sc ISOTOPES FROM INELASTIC SCATTERING AND ONE-NUCLEON TRANSFER REACTIONS ON A RADIOACTIVE 4I Ca TARGET by Per B. Void With due permission of the Senate of the University of Bergen to be publicly discussed on IS. September 1978 for the degree of Doctor philosophise BERGEN 1978

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U N I V E R S I T E T E T I B E R G E N

NUCLEAR SPECTROSCOPY OF

Ca AND Sc ISOTOPES

FROM INELASTIC SCATTERING AND

ONE-NUCLEON TRANSFER REACTIONS

ON A RADIOACTIVE 4ICa TARGET

by

Per B. Void

With due permission of the Senateof the University of Bergen to be publiclydiscussed on IS. September 1978 for the

degree of Doctor philosophise

BERGEN 1978

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NUCLEAR SPECTROSCOPY OF Ca and Sc

ISOTOPES FROM INELASTIC SCATTERING

AND ONE-NUCLEON TRANSFER REACTIONS

ON A RADIOACTIVE 41Ca TARGET

Per B. Void

Thesis submitted to the University of Bergen

April 1978

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C O N T E N T S

Page

1. Qualitative overview of collective statesand coexistence 1

2. Discussion of the results from the one-nucleon transfer data 8

2.1 Spectroscopic factors and sum ruleanalysis 8

2.2 Effective diagonal two-body matrixelements 14

3. PAPERS I - V

I. PARTICLE-HOLE MULTIPLETS IN "°CaOBSERVED IN THE ^ C a ^ H e , ^ REACTION

D. Cline, M.J.A. de Voigt, P.B. Void,0. Hansen, 0. Nathan and D. Sinclair,

Nucl. Phys. A233(1974)91 24

II. NUCLEAR STRUCTURE OF Ca FROMINELASTIC PROTON SCATTERING . . . .

P.B. Void, D. Cline, M.J.A. de Voigtand A. Sperduto,

Nucl. Phys. A292,(1977) 107 39

III. THE EFFECTIVE T=l TWO-PARTICLEMATRIX ELEMENTS IN THE fp SHELL

P.B. Void, D. Cline, R.N. Boyd,H. Clement, W.P. Alford andJ.A. Kuehner,

Phys. Lett. 7ZB(1978)311 58

IV. NUCLEAR SPECTROSCOPY OF THE (f 7/ 2)2,

f7/2P3/2 AND fs/2Pj/2 MULTIPLETSFROM THE ^Ca(d,p) "2Ca REACTION

P.B. Void, D. Cline, R.N. Boyd,H. Clement, W.P. Alford andJ.A. Kuehner,

Nucl. Phys. (1978), in press . . . . 63

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V. A STUDY OF THE TWO-PARTICLE STATES"2Sc FROM THE *xCa(3He,d) **2ScIN

REACTION

P.B. Void, D. C.line, M.J.A. deVoig t , O. Hansen and O. Nathan,

to be published

4. Summary and conclusions

112

160

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P R E F A C E

The present thesis consists of five papers written

during the period 1974 - 1978. The nuclear structure of

Ca- and Sc- nuclei has been studied using light-ion

41induced reactions on a Ca target. The simple structure

41of the Ca target (consisting largely of a single

40neutron in an f? ,„ orbit outside the doubled closed Ca

nucleus) makes one-nucleon transfer reaction studies on

41

Ca particular interesting because of their properties as

a sensitive probrt of the low-lying one particle-one hole

and two-particle shell model states in mass 4 0 and 4 2

nuclei. Such studies represent the major part of the pre-

sent work and the purpose has been to locate the distri-

bution of these states in order to obtain information on

the effective two-body matrix elements of the residual two-

body part of the nuclear Hamiltonian for (fp) and (fd~ )

shell model states.

The five papers are contained in section 3 of the

thesis and constitute the body of the present work. In

addition, a review of some systematic features of oxygen and

calcium nuclei together with an overview and discussion of

the present results, are given in sections 1 and 2, while

section 4 presents a short summary of the results of this

work.

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The experimental part of this work was started in

197 2 when the first experiments were performed at the

Nuclear Structure Research Laboratory, Rochester, USA,

and it was finished in 1976 with the polarized deuteron

beam experiment, which was carried out at the Tandem

Laboratory of McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. I

wish to express my gratitude to Professors Harry Gove and

John Kuehner for the excellent working conditions offered

me during the performance of the experiments.

The extensive work with the data redr.cLj.on and analysis

has been done partly at Universitetet i Bergen, and partly

at Rochester, and I am indepted to my colleagues in the

nuclear physics groups at these two institutions for

inspiring discussions and their interest in the present

work.

Many thanks are due to my co-workers. I am especially

grateful to Professor Douglas Cline for his invaluable con-

tributions; without his collaboration and support this

work would not have been possible. I would also like to

thank my collaborators from the Niels Bohr Institute, Pro-

fessors Ole Hansen and Ove Nathan for fruitful and stimu-

lating cooperation.

The assistance of Mrs. J. Asphaug in the preparation

of this and other manuscripts is highly appreciated.

Financial support from Norges almenvitenskapelige

forskningsrad and from Universitetet i Bergen is acknowledged.

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1. Qualitative overview of collective states and coexistence.

In the exploration of nuclear spectra the interplay of

individual particle motion and collective motion has played

a v.ltal role. The basic features of single particle ex-

citations have been most dominant in the region of closed

shell nuclei, while collective phenomena have been most easily

seen in nuclear systems with several particles outside closed

shells. However, it was early known that the first excited

states of the closed shell nuclei 0 and Ca have positive

parity, while the low lying single particle excitations are

restricted to negative parity, implying that these states

involve excitation of several particles. The positive pari-

ty states were not easy to explain in terms of the shell

model and it was suggested by Morinaga (Mo 56) that they might

be associated with collective quadrupole deformations.

Further indications that the shell model was inadequate

in explaining those states was the observation of strongly

enhanced E2-transitions in 160(Go 63). The most striking re-

sult that these states are strongly deformed was the finding

of several positive parity states observed in inelastic a-

scattering by Carter et al. (Ca 64) in 1 60 and Bauer et al.

40(Ba 65) in Ca, which showed characteristic J(J+1) rotational

band structure. This coexistence of spherical configurations

and deformed low-lying rotational bands provoked considerable

interest in understanding the structure of these nuclei. The

origin of these states was attributed to strongly deformed

multiparticle-multihole (mp-nh) configurations (Br 66, Ge 67).

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As can be seen in the Nilsson diagram of fig. 1, it costs

for a large deformation relative little energy to excite

two and four particles from

the sd-shell into the fp-

shell. Somewhat surprising-

ly the energy of the 4p-4h

configuration was found to

be equal or below that of

the 2p-2h state (Za 65,

Ba 65a, Ha66). The lowest

rotational band in these

nuclei (Br 66, Ge 67) were

thus interpreted to be pre-

Fig. 1

Nilsson diagram for the 1^3/2and If 7/2 shells showing two-particlfe two-hole state,• - particle, o - hole.

dominantly a 4p-4h configuration with a large prolate defor-

mation. The strongly enhanced B(E2) values in the adjacent

two-neutron nuclei 0 and Ca suggest that coexistence of

low-lying two-neutron spherical configurations and deformed

bands similar to those in 0 and Ca is occurring. More-

42 +over, the presence in Ca of a second 0 state at 1.84 MeV and

a second 2 state at 2.4 2 MeV additional to the sequence of2

(f_/2) states,which extensive shell model calculations

(Me 70, En 66) cannot explain,is further evidence for co-

existence. However, the absence of any characteristic

rotational energy spacing in Ca indicated that the two

set of levels are not strictly coexistent, but must be

mixed. In fact, it was demonstrated in neutron pick-up

from 43Ca (Bj 64) that the presumed (f7/2 state at 1.52

MeV is strongly mixed with the 2* state at 2.42 MeV.

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In addition to inelastic scattering data electromagnetic

transition data are particularly sensitive to the collec-

tive properties of nuclear states. Especially valuable

pieces of electromagnetic data for probing coexistence are

static electric quadrupole moments. They are diagonal

matrix elements depending' on the wave function of only one

state and would thus yield both the sign and the magnitude

of the matrix element. These features have been used to

determine the shape of the deformed bands in the Ca-region

by measuring the static electric quadrupole moment Q_ of the

+ 42 44

first excited 2 states in Ca and Ca. While Gerace and

Green postulated the deformed core-excited states to be of

prolate shape, Towsley, Cline and Horoshko (To 73) used the

experimental E2 matrix elements bo determine the admixture

2 42of (f_ ._) and core-excited states in Ca. In particular,the Q- value of -19±8 efm for the first excited 2 + state in42 2

Ca differing from the shell model prediction by 20 efm

required a prolate shape of the deformed core-excited compo-

nent.

In fig. 2 is shown the unperturbed energies of the core-

excited states deduced by Towsley et al. from their coexis-

tence model wave function and the experimental excitation42

energies in Ca, plotted versus J(J+1) to illustrate theircharacteristic rotational band behaviour. The lowest rota-

40tional band in Ca,also shown in fig.2, has a moment of

42inertia almost the same as that of Ca. Moreover, it was -

found that the intrinsic quadrupole moments derived from the

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B (E2) values are also

very similar for the two

bands which also indicates

that the two bands are

about the same and thus

of prolate shape (To 73).

In a very recent study of

the lowest rotational

40band in Ca using the

36Ar(6Li,d)40Ca reaction,

Betts et al. {Be 77)

arrived at the same con-

clusion regarding the

of the band.

Coexistence model

MeV

•01 2 3 4

Fig. 2Energy levels in l*0Ca and lt2Caplotted vs J(J+1) to illustratethe rotational bands in thesenuclei. The lowest band in "*2Cacorresponds to the unperturbedenergies of the complex states.The low-lying levels in lt2Ca con-nected by the dashed line are theunperturbed (fp)2 spectrum (To 73).

calculations similar to those of Towsley et al. have recently

18been applied to 0 by Lawson, Serduke and Fortune (La 76).

The admixture coefficient of the core-excited configuration

+ 18for the 2, in 0 is estimated to only 12%, which yields a

maximum change in the static quadrupole moment Q 2 of 2 efm

2 2from the pure (sd) shell model value of -3 efm (En 76).

Therefore, a measurement of Q 2 in18,0 does not appear as useful

for a determination of the shape of the lowest rotational

bands in ' 0 as in Ca. However, in a recent measurement

of Q 2 in180 (Kl 75) an extraordinarily large valuu of

(-19±2)efm was reported. This measured value was strongly in-

consistent with the predictions from all current nuclear

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18structure models of 0 (La 76, En 76, Er 77), which account

18reasonable well for other experimental data available for 0.

Another measurement of the static quadrupole moment of the

+ 18

2, state in 0 was therefore of great interest. Two new

measurements have recently been reported with Q- values of

(Vo 77) and (-4.7+2.7) efm2 * (Fl 77). These

results which are much smaller than the value previously

reported agree very well with the current ideas of the struc-18

ture of 0.

In addition to the collective core-excited states in the

mass 40 region, the strongly enhanced H=3 and 1=5 transitions

observed in inelastic proton and alpha scattering to the— — 4 0

lowest 3 and 5 state in Ca indicate that these states also

contain admixture from collective degrees of freedom. This

41suggests that inelastic scattering to states in Ca should

be a sensitive tool for probing the configurations formed by

the weak-coupling of the f.-. ,, valence neutron to the 3 and

5~ collective states of the Ca core; that is the (3~ x f 7 / 2 )J

and (5~x f /9) septuplets. In table 1 we have summarized the

This value has been corrected for Coulomb-nuclear interferenceusing the prescription, outlined in the paper by Void et al.(Vo 77). All the quoted values for Q2 in

l 8O arebssed on cal-culations assuming negative interference via the second 2+ state.

** The H=3 strength correspond to 27 Weisskopf units (Wu) (1 Wu isthe transition strength estimate for a pure single particlestate) and the £=5 strength to 17 Wu (Gr 72).

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Summed t-3 and 1-5 inelastic transition strengths in Ca

J *

8(p ,p ' J 3. J11 * j g . s . ) a )

Btp.p* t 3~ * 0 g . s . )

a i f . p ' l 5, j " - j 9 .J . I a l

8(p',p'l 5" •• 0* 9.1.1

1/2*

1.0

3/2*

0 . 8

5/3*

0 . 5

V2*

0 . 8

9/2*

0 .9

11/2*

0.9

b)1.2

13/3*

c0.6(0.7

co.s

15/2*

0 . 9

17/2*

0 . 5

a) The '--e«k-coupling model predict! that B(p,p'j t, J + 7/2" 9,6.) • 8<p,p'i t * 0* g.s.) foreacti 1. Uvldual spin member of tha multlpleta.

b) This val.u« deduced from the 3973 keV level transition may b« avereatimated {see table I inpuper I) because In a recent 38Ar(a,irr)41Ca experiment it w*i ihown that there are actually twostates at 3974.2*0.5 kaV and 3976.0i0.7 keV with spLns of J1-!5/3,7/2)+ and J*-ll/2* respect-ively (Li 77).

c) Values obtained by attuning the 13/2* state at 4S2Q kev to proceed by 1-3 or 1*5 respectively.

£=3 and 1=5 transition strength results obtained in the

41Ca(p,p') experiment (paper II). These results show that

41the summed A=3 strength in Ca is in reasonable accordance

with a simple weak coupling interpretation in terms of the

(3 x f7/2^ multiplet. However, since the £.=3 strength to

most of the spin members of the multiplet is distributed

over several levels , it implies that the individual states

41in Ca also contain contributions from other configurations.

For example, the 9/2 strength is fragmented into two states

indicating admixture from the -L g/? s i n 9 l e particle state.

Only the 11/2 strength is concentrated in a single level at

— T 1 / O +

3369 keV and is determined to be of almost pure (3 x f7/-2^

structure. It is interesting to note that Lister et al.

(Li 77) have arrived at the same conclusion regarding the

structure of this state in a recent study of the transition

strength in y-decay.

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Although the low spin members have not been identified

for 1=5 transitions, the strength distribution of the high

spin members with the exception of the 17/2 state, suggests

a similar weak-coupling picture in terms of the (5 e f7/2)

configuration. The 17/2 strength yields, however, only

about 50% of the expected value. This reduction of the 17/2

strength is probably due to the fact that neutron excitations

to the f7y2 or l a i t a r e blocked by the Pa'ili principle. This

is illustrated schematically in fig. 3. While both proton

and neutron promotion

from the d,/2 to the A0Ca(p,p')to5~ A'ca(p,p) to 17/2*

f 7 / 2 orbit are allowed P n P n p n

for the transition to '

- 40the 5 state in Ca,

only proton excitation

7/2

d3/2 mto the f ., orbit will Fig. 3

' Schematic illustration of blockinggive the maximum align- for Z=5 excitation to the 17/2+

state in ltlCa; • - particle, o - hole,ment of the two f_ ,„

particles which are required to form the 17/2 state. Since the

one-nucleon pick-up strength to the 5~ state indicates almost

pure (f7/2d3/2^ structure '.paper I, Be 75; see also discus-

sion in sect. 2.2) , one should in fact expect a strength re-

duction of about 50% for the 17/2 transition.

It may appear inconsistent to claim a rather pure

(f_._d. ,_) configuration for the 5 state considering the/ / * •i/ i

enhancement factor observed in the inelastic transition

strength to this level. However, the calculations by Gerace

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and Green (Ge 68), which suggest that the 5~ state consists of

9 5% (£7/2^3/2 ^ a n d 5 % admixture of deformed 3p-3h core-

exited states, predict an inelastic transition strength in

very good agreement with the observed value.

2. Discussion of the results from the one-nucleon transfer data.

In the previous section we focused the attention to expe-

riments which probed the collective properties of nuclear

states. However, the major goal of the present work has been

to provide information on the simple shell model states in

41mass 4 0-42 nuclei. Since the Ca (g.s.) wave function is

largely of pure f_ ,~ single particle structure one-nucleon

41transfer on Ca should primarily excite the low-lying

two-particle and lp-lh shell model configurations in mass2

42 and 40 nuclei respectively; that is the (f7/2) '

f7/2P3/2' £',/2Pl/2' f7/2d?"j a n d f7/2Sl/2 »ultiplets. The

detailed spectroscopic information derived from these data

is discussed in papers I, III - V experiment for experiment.

In the following sections of the present review some syste-

matic features of the spectroscopic data are discussed.

2.1 Spectroscopic factors and sum rule analysis.

The monopole sum rules of the spectroscopic strength for

a given j orbit are summarized in table 2. Neutron pick-up

41and proton stripping on Ca may proceed to both T=0 and T=l

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final states and thus yield information on the degree of

emptiness (stripping) and filledness (pick-up) for both neutrons

and protons in the target ground state. The T=l states of mass

4 2 and 40 nuclei can also be reached with neutron stripping

Table ;

Monopole sum rul«s for one-nucleon transfer within a given ] orbit

(Neutron holes). : t G.(J,,T.•j,} * J,T )] L J I A A •

(proton holes)

(All holes). = T ^ r ^ T G,(J.,TA + j,i -,T,T)3 iJT • lX L l " ft

* J.T+)

Pick up:

(Protons)- =

(Neutrons). =

^ * '•T.1

- J,T.)

T,»j,i - J,T)

Notation: ( ). = number of nucleon or holes in the target in a given orbit J;

J A , T A and J,T are spin, isospin of target and final state, respectively; Tt=TAi

not* thit both the speetroscopic strength G and the spectroscopic facor S are

eiven in the isospin formalism and G • I ; J * " S

(2J.+1)

and proton pick-up, respectively. In table 3 and 4 is given

the sum rule results for all one-nucleon transfer data from

41~eactions on Ca. The results of the simultaneous analysis

40for the same reactions on Ca obtained due to 18% admixture

40 41 41

of Ca in the Ca target, are also quoted. Since the Ca

target spin is different from zero, we obtain in addition to

the overall sum rule separate sum rules for each of the

possible (J,T) values allowed for a given j transfer. For

example, f7/2 transfer in ( He,d) yields eight partial sum

rules. These results are also quoted in table 3 and 4 for

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stripping and pick-up, respectively.

In the (d,p) and (3He,d) reactions the summed f7/9, p,,,,

and P l^ 2 strength are expected to be equal to the shell model

prediction if most of the strength has been identified. The

present summed strengths for these orbitals represent only about

(65-80)% of the shell model value. However, this result is not

Table 3

Monopole strength sumg for stripping on

Target 3ff J

*lCa 7/2 ' 01

2

3

•4

5

6

7

Al

Al

Al

3'2" !

314

5

Al

3

1/2' Al

"°Ca 7/2" 7/i

3/2" 3/i

" T

* 1

' 0

* 1

' 0

1

0

' 1

0

0

1

A l l

1

1

1

1

1

0

1

1/2

1/2

GtJA

(3i:a,d)

0.200.67

O.BU

1.50

1.52

2.18

2.172.U2

7 . i 4 0 b

».66

12.06

0.U2

0.78

0.980.96

3.14

0.60

6 . 1

3.6

• VI.1/2

C3,P>

0.15

0.78

1.33

2.1H

U.66

0.37

O.»7

0.714

0.86

2.81

1.214

5.7

3 . 1

<d

Q

0

1

2

5

e.3 .

p . a )

16

91

<.9

iO

06

6

3

S / S s h . l l

(3Ho,<l>

0.79

0.89

0.67

0.86

0.67

0.80

O.ES

0.65

0.82

0.67

0.7S

0.66

0.89

0.880.70

0.79

0.70

0.80

0.90

•odel

(3,p)

0.61

0.63

0.59

0.66

0.63

0 .

0 .

0 .0 .

0 .

0 .

0 .

B9

iu

36

3

0 b l

2

1

0.78

It

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

, p ) a )

. 65

.73

.66

.78

.72

83

83

reft Ha 7Mj b) Includes strength from statas of unknown spin.

considered to be particularly significant as regards to

whether the total strength has been seen because absolute

spectroscopic factors may have large systematic errors.

(More detail on this in paper IV and V). This is not the

case for relative spectroscopic factors which are insensi-

tive to the detailed DWBA procedure employed and therefore

believed to be appreciable more reliable. It thus seems rea-

sonable to conclude from the present summed strength results

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of the various fp orbitals shown in table 3, which are seen

to represent for each of the different stripping reactions

separately, about the same fraction of the shell model pre-

diction for transfer to both mass 41 and 42 nuclei, that the

main fragments for these orbitals have been identified. It

is noteworthy that the partial sum rules of mass 42 nuclei for

each individual spin member of the different fp configurations

exhibit the same feature within the experimental uncertainties.

This implies that only the f7/2 orbital is making an appreci-

41able contribution to the ground state properties of Ca as

expected within the simple shell model description of this

state. A renormalization of the spectroscopic factors to

bring them into agreement with the simple shell model

prediction would thus appear reasonable. However, this

requires that the amplitudes of the core-excited components

41in the Ca (g.s.) are small.

There are several experimental methods for determining

40 41the ground state core admixture in ' Ca if one assumes a

40 41coexistence model description of the ' Ca (g.s.). In par-

ticular, the £=2 transition strength in inelastic proton

(paper II) and alpha (Vo 74) scattering experiments on40,41

Ca,

which is primarily sensitive to the collective quadrupole

deformationfcan be used to derive the excited-core admixture

coefficients in the ground state wave functions. Another

method is to use the monopole sum rules for stripping and pick-

40 41up on ' Ca to determine the number of holes in the 2s1>2 and

ld,/_ orbitals and the number of particles in the excited

2 p 3/2lf7/2 s t a t e s >

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These various types of data are all consistent with

admixture of core-excited configurations of only about 10%

40 41in ' Ca. With regard to these results we stress especially

4 1 3 40the results of the Ca( He,a) Ca reaction where it was found

that 99% of the f? ,„ strength proceed to the ground state and

1% to the first excited 0 state. This is considered as the

41 40most convincing evidence that the Ca core and the Ca core

are identical. Moreover, the total absence of any detectable

40

Jl=3 and A=l strengths to the rotational bands in Ca is addi-

tional support for that admixture of core-excited configura-41

tions in the Ca (g.s.) is small.

All this evidence suggests that a renormalization of the

( He,d) and (d,p) spectroscopic factors to bring them into

agreement with the shell model predictions appears reasonable.

This results in renormalization factors of 1.33, 1.43 and 1.33

for the ( He,d), (3,p) and (d,p) spectroscopic factors, res-

pectively. These are believed to be accurate to ±15%.

We emphasize that the magnitude of these renormalization

factors is closely related to the specific DWBA analysis em-

ployed in the different reactions.

41Regarding the pick-up experiments on Ca the summed

spectroscopic factors for Z=2 transitions for the (d,t) and

(d,x) data of Betts et al. (Be 75) are in excellent agree-

ment with the shell model predictions. Except for the 3~,

T=0 strength which exceeds the values expected by almost a

factor of two, the individual states of the (£7/9^3/2 ^

multiplet exhibit the same good agreement between the measured

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and predicted strengths. The additional £=2 strength is

interpreted as due to <*,-/2 pick-up. The considerable frac-

tionation of the 3~, T=0 strength together with the collec-

tive nature of the lowest 3~, T=0 state provide further

evidence that these states contain fragments of the dc

strength.

Target j"

"lCa 1/2'

3/2*

UDCa 3,2*

1/2*

j "

0*

2"

3"

u"e ~

1"

u"

2"

s"All

All3/2*

1/2*

T

0

0

0

0

0

1

1

1

1

0

1

1/2

1/2

(3He,a)

1.0

0.39

1.0

0.89

x

L.I3.9

,9

.9

.1

.U

. 7

9.0

3.8

. V J,W,T>

Id.tj4' (a,if"

0.B1

0.28

0.72

0.50

0.58

1 J' J J

" • " 3 i)2.1 3-5J2.16.1 6.7

3.8 u.d

1.6 2.U

3H«

1

1

2

1

3

2

2

2

1221

hel

• « >

.0

.3

.3

.6

.6

.0

.3

.0

.5

.7

.5

. 3

.9

. model

<d,t,j) Ci.,."

0.81

0.90

1.65

0.S9

O.B<.

t

'"

0.77

1.3 1-1

1.0

1.1 1.1

0.35 1.1

o.a i.2

a)

The summed strength results of the ( He,a) experiments

agree with the simple shell model description for 1=3,

whereas the £=2 spectroscopic sums exceed the sum-rule limit

by a factor of about 2. Moreover, the strength ratio between

T=l and T=0 states is about 1.5 instead of unity for d-.,

transfer. This latter effect is due to the standard separa-

tion energy procedure used in the DWBA analysis of the (3He,a)

data represents an incorrect treatment of the form factors for

transitions to isobaric analogue states (St 66) . Stock and

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Tamura (St 66) have shown that this problem is resolved if

one uses the solution of the Lane coupled-equations as the

form factor in DWBA.

In view of the consistent results of the (d,t) sum rules,

the strong ^-dependence of the expected values for ( He,a)

spectroscopic factors probably reflects a lack of under-

standing of the ( He,a) reaction mechanism.

2.2 Effective diagonal two-body matrix elements.

In theoretical studies of nuclear spectra, knowledge of

the effective nucleon - nucleon interaction and its two-body

matrix elements, is of great interest. The usual procedure

for experimentally determining two-body matrix elements is to

perform shell model calculations in which the two-body matrix

elements are unknown. This procedure has been used to deter-

mine (f7/2' an<* f7/2d3/2 e f f e c t i v e two-particle matrix ele-

ments from a variety of data in the mass 40 region by McGrory,

Erne and Dieperink et al. (Me 73, Er 66, Di 68). However,

the best experimental technique is to deduce the two-body

matrix elements directly from the centroid energies of the

spectroscopic strength observed in one-nucleon transfer reac-

tions. In the present work it has been possible to determine

the energy centroids for all individual spin members of the

2 -1(f_,_) , (£7/2^3/2' a n d ^f7/2d3/2' m u l t iP l e t s« While the

measured energy centroids are given as excitation energies

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relative to the ground state, the effective two-body inter-

action energy is measured with respect to a reference energy,

at which a degenerate two-body multiplet would appear in the

absence of a residual two-body interaction.

Greater insight in understanding the effective two-body

matrix elements is obtained if the matrix elements are plotted

versus the analogue of the classical angle between the angular

momentum vectors j, and j_ of the two particles which is

defined by

cos 012

The cos9,2 dependence of the two-body matrix elements

clearly exhibits the range of the two-body force. For

example, a long range force will depend weakly on the dif-

ferent overlap of the two orbits for varying angle 6-i2"

Thus for a long-range force the two-body matrix elements will

be constant, independent of 9-,2" O n t^le o t h e r hand, a short-

range force will have the largest matrix elements when the

wave functions have the greatest overlap which is when the

orbits are coplanar; that is, cos 6,2 = +1. In fig. 4 is

plotted the (f7/->) an<^ ^7/2^3/2^ two-body matrix elements

The energy centroids are defined as

M j t JT) = E G. e./ I G.i * 1 i x

where G, and e. are the spectroscopic strength and excitationenergy if the i^h state of spin JT, which is excited by jtransfer. We note that the centroid energies depend only onthe relative spectroscopic strengths.

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derived from the present data as a function of 6-|?. For the2

^ 7/22

' T =^ matrix elements, the behaviour is characteristic

of a short-range attractive force, which becomes large when

912 aPP r o a c h es 0° and 180°. For the T=l matrix elements this

is true for = 180°, but "hot for the small values of 6,-.

TWO-BODY MATRIX ELEMENTS IN 4?Cd

180

;MeV)

576(MsV)

•V 565

-3,15*3? '.' 481

-0,1028

42,Ca

51

-3,1-4*1

m—s, 22—6-,

22 3;0

196 5*0

13? ,*„

TWO BODY MATRIX ELEMENTS IN

(MeV)

- 0

0° G0° 120° 180°

Fig. 4

Values of energy centroids and two-body matrix elements deter-mined from present work. The two-body matrix elements areplotted versus the angle 6 to illustrate the physicalproperties of the force as discussed in text. The relationbetween the angle 912 and the corresponding single particleorbits j a and j 2 with ~3i + 32 - ^

a r e shown to the left inthe figure. The value of the reference energy Erefm for thedifferent multiplets is also indicated.

In the latter case the two particles form approximately a

spatially antisymmetric state. Hence the relative distance

between them is always large and the matrix element approaches

zero with a short-range force.

The matrix element for the minimum J-value of the

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configuration is seen to be fairly attractive,

whereas the overall centroid of these matrix elements is

slightly repulsive. Qualitatively, this may be interpreted

as an effective interaction that on the average is slightly

repulsive but has a short-range attractive component which

dominates when the overlap between the two wave functions is

good.

Prior to the present results of (f7/2) two-body matrix

elements there has been some controversy regarding what data

yield the appropriate values. In mass 42 nuclei one assumed

that the lowest states of each spin represent the (f_._)2

multiplet. These values disagreed significantly with those

derived from a similar analysis of the Sc level spectrum,

Fig. 5

Comparison of (f 7/ 2)2 two-

particle matrix elements.The "8Sc particle-holematrix elements have beentransformed into particle-particle matrix elementswith the Pandya transform-ation (Pa 56, Sc 71).

180

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which was assumed to represent the (f7/2f7/2^ configuration.

The present work has shown that the assumption made, regarding

2the (^7/2' multiplet, was wrong. For most spin members of

the multiplet, the f7/2 strength was found to fractionate over

several states yielding energy centroids deviating significantly

from the energy of the lowest state of appropriate spin. As42 2

can be seen from fig. 5, the Sc(f7 ,~) matrix elements derived

3 48from the ( He,d) data are in good agreement with the Sc

results (Sc 71). This indicates that the (f7/of_/o) particle-'•/Z 1/4.

hole configuration in Sc probably is less fractionated than

in mass 42 nuclei, which seems reasonable, because Ca is a

40better closed core nucleus than Ca.

— 1 41 3The f_,_d, -_ matrix elements derived from the Ca( He,a)

41data are compared with the corresponding Ca(d,t) results in

table 5. The two data sets yield identical results for the

4~ and 5~, T=0 states as well

as for all members of the T=l

states. This is due to the

fact that the d3>2 strength

to these spin states is

contained in a single level.

The value of the 3~, T=0

matrix element is uncertain.

As discussed, the A=2 tran-

sitions to the 3~, T=0 states

contain admixture from the

Effective (f7,2d3>2~ ) particle-hole matrix •laments

derived from on«-nucleon pick-up experiment! on CA

2~

3"

4~

5"

2*

3'

4~

5"

T

0

0

0

0

1

1

1

1

E(£ 7 / 2 ol3/j~1] (HeV)

(3He,a)

-0.83

-1.78

-1.65

-2.77

1.16

0.43

0.40

1.29

!d,t) "

-0.77

-1.38

-1.65

-2.77

1.16

D.43

0.40

1.29

(d,I) *'

1.36

0.59

0.56

1.46

d ,„ orbit, which most likely

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has lead to an upward shift of the (£7/2^3/9) - multiplet

and thus made the 3 ,T=0 matrix element too little attractive.

The (f_/od, ,,) two-particle multiplet in mass 34 nucleiI/ c, if£•

has been located in one-proton and one-neutron stripping on

S and a sum rule analysis of these data yields another esti-

two-body interaction (Cr 72, Er 71).

The particle-hole transform of the mass 34 matrix elements,

as shown in fig. 6, agrees with our values to within a few

hundred keV for the T=l states and the 2 , 3 and 4 , T=0

states. This is within the experimental uncertainties.2r

mate of the f_/9d/ / /

( f 7 / 2 d 3 / 2 ) MATRIX ELEMENTS

A ' M S D Ia^Kuo&Brown•:Erne

T=1

T=0 -

Fig. 6 In the left-hand figure the (fr^cUTj) particle-holematrix elements obtained from the present f5fle,a) data arecompared with the corresponding matrix elements derived frommass 34 nuclei. The (f7/2d3/2) two-particle matrix elementsof mass 34 nuclei were converted into particle-hole matrixelements by means of the Pandya transformation. When trans-forming the (f7/2

d3/2^ matrix elements:, we used a value of0.13 MeV for the 2 ,T=1 state and not the value of 0.39 MeVgiven by Crozier (Cr 72); the new value is a result of new spinassignments in 3<*S (En 74) . This lead to a significant improve-ment of the differences between the two data sets. In particu-lar the discrepancy of the (f7/2d372)s-,T=O matrix element wasreduced from 1.5 MeV to 1 MeV. (See also discussion in text.)The right-hand figure shows a comparison of the ^7/2^3/2^ two-particle matrix elements obtained from present work and fromvarious calculations.

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However, the mass 34 data correspond to a 5~, T=0 matrix element

40in Ca, which is about 1 MeV less attractive than our value.

One possible explanation for this difference is that the energy

- 40

of 5 , T=0 centroid in Ca is too low. For example, if the

SL=2 transition to the 8.483 keV (see table 1 in paper 1) is

assigned 5 , T=0, the centroid energy would be shifted upwards

by about 0.6 MeV. In view of the E5 enhancement observed in

inelastic scattering to the 5~, T=0 state admixture of deformed

core-excited states with the (^7/0^3/2^ - configuration, which

would cause a fragmentation of the 5 , T=0 strength, is not

unreasonable. In fact, Gerace and Green (Ge 68) predict a

second 5 , T=0 state at about 8.5 MeV excitation energy. On32

the other hand, it is possible that the non-closure of the S40core, which is considerably larger than in Ca, may cause the

discrepancy.

It is interesting to compare the present data with existing

calculations of the effective two-body interaction between

f7y? and d.,,, nucleons. Kuo-Brown (Ku 68) derived these

matrix elements from the Hamada - Johnston nucleon - nucleon

potential renormalized to account for core polarization.

Dieper.ink et al. (Di 68) calculated the matrix elements from40

a fit to levels in Ca using the phenomenological modified

surface delta interaction (MSDI). And Ernfi (Er 66) obtained

the matrix elements from shell model calculations fitted to

a varity of sd nuclei using an empirical interaction. As can

be seen from fig. 6, the.present data are in very good agree-

ment with the MSDI results. The Kuo-Brown interaction gives

a fairly good description of the J-dependence, but underestimates

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the isospin monopole splitting by about 1.5 MeV. However,

Osnes and Kuo (Os 73) have shown that this shortcoming of

the bare Kuo-Brown interaction is greatly reduced when second-

order processes in the Kuo-Brown interaction are taken into

account. This increased the T=l to T=0 splitting to about

80% of the experimental value.

We conclude this section by noting that the (f7/5^3/2^T=0

matrix elements also exhibit a J-dependence characteristic of a

short-range attractive force while the splitting between the

two isospin states, which is considerably larger than the

difference in the J-dependence for the two isospins, indicates

the presence of a long-range isospin dependent interaction.

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P A P E R I

PARTICLE-HOLE MULTIPLETS IN 4°Ca

OBSERVED IN THE 41Ca(3He,a) REACTION

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I.E.I:2.G

Af«r/rari>/vj/«A233(1974)91-104; (£) North-Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam

Not to be reproduced by photoprint or microfilm without written permission from the publisher

PARTICLE-HOLE MULT1PLETS IN 40CaOBSERVED IN THE 41Ca(t, a) REACTION

D. CLINE and M. J. A. DE VOIGTNuclear Structure Research Laboratory, University of Rochester,

Rochester, NY, 14627, USA*

and

P. B. VOLDInstitute of Physics, Uniienity of Bergen, 5000 Bergen, Norway

and

OLE HANSEN, O. NATHAN and D. SINCLAIRThe Niels Bohr institute, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen O, Denmark f '

Received 27 March 1974

Abstract: Energy levels in *"Ca up (o 10.2 MeV have been studied in the neutron pickup reaction41Ca(r, a)40Ca with 20 MeV bombarding energy. Thirty excited states have been identifiedand angular distributions have been measured in the interval from 5° lo 40° by means of asplit-pole magnetic spectrometer. The angular distributions together with DW calculationshave been used lo extract /„ values and spectroscopic factors. The /„ = 2 strength distributionfor the f jd |~ ' particle-hole levels is compared to the /p = 3 strength distribution from protonstripping data.

NUCLEAR REACTIONS 41Ca(r, a), £ = 2 0 MeV; measured <r(£a, 6). "Cadeduced levels, J, n, I, T, spectroscopic factors. Enriched, radioactive target.

1. Introduction

The energy levels of 40Ca below about 8 MeV comprise two classes, namely thespherical "shell-model" states and the deformed multi-particle, multi-hole levels [seee.g. ref. ') and references quoted there]. The shell-model states consist of the groundstate and the negative parity Ip-lh states while the deformed states are the positiveparity levels plus a sequence of negative parity states forming a K" = I" band. Thetwo classes of levels mix to some extent').

The Ip-lh odd parity states can be studied experimentally in at least three distinctlydifferent ways: through direct inelastic scattering, through proton capture from 39Kand through neutron pickup from 4 lCa. The inelastic scattering experiments aresensitive to the coherence properties of the 40Ca levels 2) while the proton stripping

' Research supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation.t' Work supported in part by the Jupan World Exhibition Commemoraiive Association, Tokyo,

Japan.

91

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92 D. CL1NE el al.

experiments determine the relative strengths of the (d t)~ l (fp)+l configuration com-ponents and the neutron pickup processes yield information on the (sd)"1 (fj)*'configurations.

Detailed studies of 40Cu utilizing inelastic scattering processes and proton-strippingreactions haveappcared in the literature J~7)whiledata from neutron pickup on 4 lCahave not been published previously. The present paper reports on the 4lCa(T, a)reaction; an enriched 4 lCa target was bombarded with 20 MeV 3He ions and levelsin 40Ca were studied up to an excitation energy of 10 MeV. The values of transferredangular momentum /„, and the corresponding transition strengths were determinedfrom a DWBA analysis of the measured differential cross sections and they are dis-cussed in sects. 2 and 3.

A detailed comparison with other data on *°Ca is presented in sect. 4, and thespectroscopic strength sums for /„ = 2 and /„ = 3 arc discussed in sect. 5.

2. Experimental procedures and results

2.1. TARGET

The target of the radioactive isotope 4JCa, employed in the present measurements,was the same as used in a previous (d, p) experiment 8). The Ca material was enrichedto 81.8 % in 41Ca with an 18.1 % 40Ca residue. The backing was 30fig/cm2 carbonand the Ca thickness was about 25 /<g/cm2. The details of the isotope production andtarget preparation are given in refs. 8- *). The enriched material was purchased fromOak Ridge National Laboratory, Isotopes Service. A 40Ca target was also used foridentification of transitions leading to single-hole stales in 39Ca.

2.2. EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE

The 41Ca and 40Ca targets were bombarded by 20 MeV 3He particles from theRochester MP tandem accelerator and the reaction products were momentum ana-lyzed in a split-pole magnetic spectrometer10) and detected in Ilford K.0, 50;imphotographic emulsions placed along the focal plane. Track discrimination wasfacilitated by placing suitable Al foils directly in front of the emulsions.

Spectra were obtained from 41Ca at laboratory angles from 5° to 30° in 5" stepsand at 40°, while control runs on a 40Ca target were made at 5°, 10°, 20°, 30° and 40°.The relative intensity normalizations were made by monitoring the elastic scatteringat 45° by means of a solid state detector.

Absolute cross sections were measured by observing the elastic scattering yields atangles from 10° to 30° in 5° steps using a position sensitive solid state detector in thefocal plane of the magnetic spectrometer and by normalizing to optical model predic-tions. The 41Ca(r, a) absolute cross-section scale is believed to have a systematicerror of less than ± 15 %.

The ratio between 40Ca(r, a) and 41Ca(T, x) yields was obtained in two ways: byrelative measurements on targets of the two isotopes, as described above, and by

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41Ca(T,o) 93

500,

EXCITATION ENERGV (MeV)

4 3 2

400

£ 300 i

200

100 P

*1Co ( 3 He,a) '°Ca

E = 20.0 MeV

CM

JU.20

- ~ _ . ^ . . , - J L . . .15 10

DISTANCE ALONG PLATE (cm)

500

EXCITATION ENERGY (MeV)10

o

zr

i 0 0 '

300

200

100-

45

K

J

41Co ( 3 He.a) <

E = 20.0 MeV

DISTANCE ALONG PLATE (cm)

Fig. I. Spectrum of x-particles at 5° laboratory angle. The group numbers refer to table 1.

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94 D. CLINE etal.

TABUS 1a°Ca level energies and 4 lCa(r, a)40Ca spcctroscopic strengths

Group £", (kcV)no.

012

3

4

56

7

89

10II12

1.1

14

15

this work(±5kcV)

0(3350)3732

4488

S6I0

(5901)6029

6288

65836748

693069507112

7531

7656

7693

(kcV)rcf. 13)

03352.93736.83904.44491.55212.25249.05278.95614.35627.95902.56025.26029.06285.16509654465816750.56909.869.1069517113.57240728073007.19974267447.17467.175J2.67561.87625.77658 876767695.87768781178677928797280168092fill?8133818682758.1218.157

J";Tr c f l 3 ) ' l

0*0*

a-2*5"0*T +

4*4 -2*("•> -

J*3"4*4*3"2~2*

1-

0*

2 *

<I-J>-

4 " ; T =1

J - ; T = 1

J . b ,

4 * " )

2 ' ' )

if-3)- ")

(0-3)"

4 " )

J"thiswork

-I"')

C(J-•/•!-/ ,)")

/ „, 3 ; = o / « 2

(0 98]10.01]

0.57

( I I ]

0.89

: 0.003(0.17]

0.05

0 04 0.21|022]

(0.07)0.06

0.13 0.20

0.03

1.1

1.3

(dff/dfl)m,, Commentsfmb/srt

1.650.030.59 poor DW fit

1.20

1.12

5 0.005 Id j transfer0.26

0.09

0.410.31

0.(0 poor data0.13 Id] transfer0.66

0.04

1.93

1.88

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•"Ca(i, a)

TABLE 1 (continued)

95

Group £•„ (keV) E, J"; T J"no. this work (keV) ref. ")') this

(±5keV) ref.13) work

G(i - * ; + / , ) " ) (do/dQ)mi, Comments— . (mb/sr)

/ = 3 / = o / = 2

16 837417 842318 8483

19 8551

2021

23

903590809145

9222

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

9435

9460

9559

9605

9647

9673

10055

10214

83718424847485358551 5"; T «8578 2* ")8626866487438757880588488904893189778993 2* ')902890759136 3" "••)915891719197922892679404 2"; T = 119429194329454 (2,3)-;r-=19535(95369602

J960496391966719668

11004211005110212

(0.08) 0.09 / uncertain|0.62] 0.82(0.21) 0.25 /=--2 probable

117] 2.14

1"

1-

(3 ,4)-

(3,4)"

(3, 4)"

0.33(0.06)

(0.05)

0.98

0.18

(0.11)

(0.05)

(0.31)

(^0.1)

1.470.290.13

0.08

0.22

0.21

0.38

0.58

i 0.10

0.89

6.07

0.76

/ = 0 probable1=1 probable

/ uncertain

/ uncertain

/ uncertain

/ uncertain

•) (d, n) and (r, d) frefs. *•')] have !„ - 1 and J" (0-3)~. Present data have J" =--= 3" or 4". Thusy = 3-.

*) Deduced from ref. " ) .') The lowest 2"; T — 1 level is erroneously quoted in ref. l 3 ) at E, = 8474 keV.d) Spectroscopic factors given in square brackets indicate the /-value is fixed by angular momentum

considerations.c) r = 0 is preferred for this level because there is no 4 0 K parent state to match it ") and because

it was missed in the (p, y) work l4> which otherwise excited all T = 1 levels.') Probably the same state as the 8366 keV state of ref. " ) .

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simultaneous observation of a-particle groups originating from 40Ca and 41Ca in theenriched 4 lCa target and using the isotopic analysis provided by Oak Ridge. Thetwo sets of data agreed to within the experimental uncertainties and determined the40Ca(r, a) and 41Ca(T, a) cross-section ratios to better than ± 10 "„.

2.3. RESULTS

A spectrum from the 4lCa(r, a) reaction is shown in fig. 1; it includes 32 at-pariiclegroups corresponding to states in 40Ca up to an excitation energy of 10.21 MeV, Inthis range of excitation more than 100 levels are known 3 " 7 ' " " 1 4 ) . In table 1 wepresent information for all known levels up to £', = 9.0 MeV and for u selection oflevels between 9.0 MeV and 10.2 MeV. The 40Ca(j, a)31)Ca contaminant groupswere used as a corrective secondary energy standard; uncertainties in the excitationenergies amount to +5 keV. The energy resolution was 20 keV FWHM.

TABLE 2

Optical-model parameters

Particle

3He4Hcn

('

165211.6

')

<o

1.14

1.14

i.:o

0.7230.790.65

I f

20.028.8

0

II '

0

0

0

r'o

1.601.1420

a'

0.810.750

Thomas

00

25

Ref.

" )

Well depths are in MeV, geometrical parameters in fm.') Adjusted to give a binding CLJII.II to the experimental separation energy.

TABLE 340Ca(T, a)3*Ca spectroscopic factors

Levelno.

0

1

J"

V

E,(keV)

02470

C(0*

1 0

3.8

•••J,)

1 — 2

9.0

(dtj/d#)mJI

(mb/sr)

12.520.5

3. DWBA analysis

The analysis of (T, a) cross sections near mass number 40 in terms of DW methodsis somewhat problematic l s " 1 8 ) . The angular momentum mismatch at the nuclearsurface is large for (T, <X) transitions to low-lying stales with angular momentumtransfers of 0 and 2 [see e.g. ref. I S)]. Another complicating feature of the DWBAanalysis is the anomalous x-pariicle scattering for targets ncai 40Ca. The net result ofthese effects is a dependence on the incident energy and unphysically large16)extracted spectroscopic factors, especially for /„ = 2, d} pickup. DWBA calculationsfor isobaric analogue slates in this mass region systematically yield too small (T, X)

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- \

101(=3

'•\ I =2

(1)U 3

10?

(2)1 = 2

\

15) • (G) • . (7) ,-01 l»2 . io U 2 - : ,01 1=2 -|

e

a

1-0+2

"", ' 0) (10)

' \ 1=2 , I--2• 01 .. H

U2 !

001 . I -i

- v \ . 02) • - (13) . . (141•01 \rj. 01 i=? i o \ 1=2

"w-0+2- -_ • \

- U2 V • - \

(is) :

', J

10 30 50 10 30 50 10 30 50 10 30 50

9c.mFig. 2. Experimental angular distributions and DW predictions in the cm. system. The groupnumbers refer to table 1. The normalization of the DW curves corresponds to the experimental

spectroscopic factors of table I •

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t>

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D. CL1NE el at.

. - , _ , - , -(16) J(1.2) .

(17)

.10 1.2

. . -i_J I-.. . I _ . _ l - i -

(18)

01 ', 1-2 ..(19)

I

\ (20)

• \ 0 1 - 0 -(211 . (22) \

U2(23) .U-2) -

(24)

I I !

(25) (26) .

001 ,

(27)

(31)

10 30 50 10 30 50

10 30 50 10 30 50

6 cm.Fig. 3. See caption to fig. 2.

cross sections and thus too large spectroscopic factors ts'il). The authors of refs. * ' • ' 7 )conclude that this latter effect is caused by the incorrect treatment of the form factorsand not by finite range or non-locality effects.

The DWBA code DWUCK by P. D. Kunz was used together with the optical

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model parameters cited in table 2; they are average parameters fitted to elasticscattering for the fj shell region 19~2'). The calculations were made in the zero-range and local approximations, and the radial integrations had a lower boundaryof 0.1 fm. The spectroscopic factors quoted in tables 1 and 3 for the +1Ca(T, a)40Caand 40Ca(t, a)39Ca reactions, respectively, were extracted from the experimentaldata via the relation

where j designates the total transferred angular momentum, V, is the target spin andJt is the final-state spin. The term G™ equals CZS where C is an isospin Clebsch-Gordan coefficient and S the spectroscopic factor defined Jn an isospin 9) formalism.

More than one value of j may contribute, incoherently, to a transition sinceJt = i for the 41Ca g.s. In particular both dj. and d} transfer may contribute to/„ = 2 transfers for Js = 2-5. We assume that the dj. contribution is small for allstates studied with the possible exception of the lowest, collective 3~ state. Both d$and s.j transfer is allowed for •/* = 3~ and 4". Only in two cases, however, have wefound it necessary to fit the angular distributions by a sum of /„ = 2 and /„ = 0(groups no. 8 and 12); in all other cases, the quoted spectroscopic strengths werederived from a fit with one value for the transferred angular momentum. It shouldbe noted that at low excitation energies the angular momentum mismatch makes the(T, a) reaction a poor tool for detecting /„ = 0 strength. Also, the DW /„ = 0 predic-tions in this region are of doubtful value. It is entirely possible that parts of the low-lying 3~ and 4~ strength, recorded here as due to /„ = 2 transfer, may be of /„ = 0character. The DWBA predictions are compared to the experimental cross sectionsin figs. 2 and 3.

4. Comparison with other experiments

The 40Ca(T, a)39Ca(g.s.) forward angle cross section of 12.5±2.0 mb/sr (table 3)may be compared to the value of 10 mb/sr measured at 18 MeV by Bock el al. 21).DWBA calculations predict an increase by 17 % in the cross section when going from18 MeV to 20 MeV (the energy used here). Thus the two cross-section results are inagreement within the experimental uncertainties.

The spectroscopic strength given in ref. 16) for 40Ca(r, a)"Ca(g.s.) at 20 MeV is 8,in good agreement with our value of 9 (table 3). Our value of 3.8 for 4 °CU(T, a)3 9Ca(^+,2.47 MeV) disagrees with the value of 2 quoted in ref. 1 6). On the other hand, theearlier Heidelberg paper " ) on the same reactions quotes a spectroscopic factor forthe 2.47 MeV state which is 2.7 times smaller than the ground-state S-value. Thiscompares quite well with our value of 2.4 for the same ratio. The reasons for thediscrepancy in 5[3 'Ca(g.s.)]/S[39Ca(|+)j between the two Heidelberg papers is notclear.

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The comparison of the present results to the proton stripping reactions 3 9 K ( T , d)and 39K(d, n) is of particular interest. The 39K.(g.s.) is mainly a proton d} single-holestate relative to 40Ca(g.s.), while the 4lCa(g.s.) is mainly an f} single-particle staterelative to 40Ca(g.s.). We should therefore expect those lp-lh states in 40Ca thathave dj^fj components to be excited in both proton capture and neutron pickupexperiments. Another set of 40Ca states expected to be common to both experimentsare states having core configurations which are present as components in both39K(g.s.) and 4lCa(g.s.).

The stripping 4> 7) reactions and the pickup reaction both have large cross sectionsto the 40Ca ground state. The proton d} stripping gives G"1 = 0.8 whereas G" = 1.0for fj neutron pickup. For stripping we use C"ripp'"« = (2/f + ])(2/,+ l )~ l

S(J,+j -* Jt), where S is the spectroscopic factor in a non-isospin formalism. Thevalue of G" is obtained with the normalization factor 23 given in eq. (1). The40Ca(d, p)41Ca(g.s.) reaction " ) spectroscopic factor Sdp = 0.8 is in fair agree-ment with the (T, a) result.

Only one positive parity state in addition to the 0+ ground state, was excited in theproton transfer reactions, namely the 3.35 MeV 0+ multi-particle, multi-hole level.In the 39K(i, d) reaction the spectroscopic strength of the 0+ state was 8 % of thatof the ground state and an upper limit of a similar magnitude was quoted for the39K(d, n) reaction 1). This same state is observed in the 41Ca(t, a) reaction with aneven smaller spectroscopic factor of only 1 % of that of the ground-state transition,and again it is the only positive parity excited state definitely observed. The differenceof almost an order of magnitude between the stripping and pickup intensities forexciting the 3.35 MeV 0+ level is believed to reflect a difference in the detailed corestructure of the two target ground states. The non-observation of neutron pickup toany other positive parity state suggests that the 4 lCa ground state looks very muchlike an fj neutron coupled to a 40Ca(g.s.) core.

Those d j 'fj states which are populated in both the proton stripping and the neutronpickup reaction are those states which have proton as well as neutron components.If isospin is a good quantum number, states with T = 0 or T = 1 can be reached andthese states will have equal amounts of proton and neutron configurations. Theobserved /p = 3 spectroscopic strengths C'J for proton stripping are compared, infig. 4, with our 4 = 2 and /„ = 0 pickup spectroscopic strengths. The strippingstrengths are an average of the Seth el al. 4) 3 9 K(T, d) and Fuchs el at. 7) 39K(d, n)results.

Almost all strong f} stripping transitions have strong 41Ca(r, a) /„ = 2 counter-parts, whereas the reverse statement does not hold true. In several cases an *'Ca(T, a)/„ = 2 transition has no /p = 3 3 9 K(T, d) or39K(d, n) counterpart, but rather corre-sponds to an /p = 1 stripping transition. This is not considered to reflect an importantdiscrepancy since both of the stripping experiments inherently favour pt transferstrongly over f$ transfer and thus may contain appreciable undetected /p = 3 strength.

Excitation of 1" levels in the (r, a) reaction can proceed only via pickup of dj

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neutrons, dj pickup being forbidden by the selection rules. The 6.95 MeV 1" state

is weakly excited in both stripping and pickup, thus demonstrating the presence of

small admixtures of both the fyij ' and d p p j components in this state.

STRENGTH IN '"Co- . 1 . 3 _ - l . J

PROTON CAPTURE M«V NEUTRON PICK UP

J —

-0

20 IS

IJ5

OS os w « 20

Fig, 4. Experimental spectroscopic strengths for proton stripping and neutron pick-up, respectively,to states of *°Ca. The pick-up data are from this work and the stripping data jre average values fromrefs. "•'). The ordinate is excitation energy in 40Ca. The figure is further discussed in the text *.

All the transfer experiments excite the 8.42 MeV state strongly indicating that this

level rather than the 8.48 MeV state l J ) is the T = I, 2~ state. The transfer reaction

assignment has been assumed to be the correct one.

' Note added in proof: At 7.7 MeV excitation a small amount of/,, = 1 (r, d) strength is shown. Inaddition an /„ = 3 strength of 1.4 should have been indicated.

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5. The monopole sum rule

The neutron spectroscopic strengths should satisfy the relation 24)

= >•(/), (2)

where G" designates the neutron spectroscopic strength for the transition of the ithstate of spin J( and v(j) is the number of/-neulrons in the target.

If isospin is a good quantum number, one further has2*)

(3)

where the summation extends only over isobaric analogue states and n(j) is thenumber ofy'-protons in the target state. If the fj proton orbits are empty in 41Ca(g.s.)then eq. (3) implies that neutron fj pickup leads exclusively to Tf = 0 states. On theother hand, the d j , s and deeper lying neutron strength split evenly over 7*f = 1 and0 final states, provided the core of 41Ca(g.s.) has T = 0. The latter result applies foreach final state spin value J, separately.

The pertinent strength sums are displayed in table 4. The /„ = 3 summed strengthis unity as predicted by the simplest shell model description. Both the 40Ca and 4 lCa/„ = 2 spectroscopic sums exceed the ldj neutron sum-rule limit of 4 by a factor ofabout 2. The 4 lCa sum for the dj spectroscopic factors is about 90 % of the 40Cavalue. The 40Ca s4 sum likewise exceeds the sum-rule limit of 2 by a factor of about 2.The s summed strength observed in the 4lCa(T, a)40Ca reaction is roughly half thetotal strength observed in the *°Ca(t, «J39Ca reaction. This is as expected if only theT = 0 part of the fjS^' strength has been located in 40Ca.

TABLE 4

(r, a) spectroscopic strength sums

Target

41Ca

40Ca

j "

} -

V

Vi*1 +

J,"

0*2"2"3"3"4"4~5"5~allallall

3-,4"3*

r,00i0i010101all

0,1it

SC" (S

1.00.390.621.01.30.891.31.11.73.44.98.31.79.03.8

B..)'-/(SO»)T-

1.6

1.3

1.5

1.5

1.4

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The ratios of [G]T * 'l[G]T " ° are about 1.3-1.6 rather than unity for the dj. pick-up suggesting that the present DWBA calculations do not properly reproduce the Q-dependence of the / = 2 cross sections. This result is parallel to conclusions made inprevious work on (T, a) reactions, in particular in refs. *5l *7).

The unphysically large /„ = 0 and /„ = 2 spectroscopic strengths and incorrectisospin splitting of the strengths both reflect a lack of understanding of the (r, a) reac-tion mechanism. It would be tempting at this point to use the monopole sum rules asguidelines for a renormalization of the spectroscopic strengths. Such renormalii'dstrengths could be used for a further discussion of the dipole and quadrupole sumrules. In view of the mentioned difficulties in the analysis of mixed /„ = 0+2 transi-tions we have found this procedure unjustified.

6. Summary

The 41Ca(T, a)40Ca reaction below Ex = 10.2 MeV is found to populate primarilythe 0+ ground state and 20 negative parity states. These negative parity states appearto contain the major fraction of the d^ 1fi particle-hole multiplet and the T = 0 partof the 2sj *f} multiplet.

The spectroscopic factor for f$ neutron pickup to the 40Ca ground state is approx-imately unity in agreement with the value of 0.8 measured in the 40Ca(d, p)41Careaction " ) . The spectroscopic factors for /„ = 2 and /„ = 0 neutron pickup deter-mined with targets of 40Ca and 41Ca were measured to be a factor of two too large.This is a feature observed in other studies of the (T, a) reaction on nuclei near mass40. In addition the summed strength to the T = 1 states is 40 % greater than to theT = 0 states indicating further problems with the interpretation of the 4lCa(r, a)40Careaction.

The authors want to express their graditudc to Drs. H. E. Gove and P. Stelson fortheir assistance in arranging the 41Ca production in 1965. Discussions with Drs.W. P. Alford, P. Goode, J. P. Schiffer, B. Mottelson and I. Hamamoto are muchappreciated. D. Cline also wishes to thank the Niels Bohr Institute for the hospitalityand financial support given him during his stay in Copenhagen.

Reference

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P A P E R II

NUCLEAR STRUCTURE OF 41Ca FROM

INELASTIC PROTON SCATTERING

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Nuclear Phvsiis A292 (1977) 107-124: © North-Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam

Not lo be reproduced by phutoprinl or microfilm without written permission from the publisher

NUCLEAR STRUCTURE OF 4lCaFROM INELASTIC PROTON SCA1TERING

P. B. VOLD \ D. CLING and M. J A. DE VOIGT "

Nuclear Structure Research Lalwratary Uiuccisilv «l Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 '"

and

A. SPRRDUTO

Massachusetts Institute of Teihnofagy, Ctwihriilije. Maw. 02139

Received 26 April 1977(Revised 19 July 1977*

Abstract: Angular distributions have been measured for inelastic and clastic scattering of 19 Me V protonson 40 4lCa. A total or 89 levels were identified below 6.4 MeV in "Ca with an energy resolutionof 12 kcV. Inelastic transition strengths have been extracted using DWBA theory with a vibrationalmodel form factor. These transition strengths correlate well with inelastic ^-scattering and electro-magnetic values. The quadrupole strengths arc interpreted in terms of the coexistence model andimply lhat the excited-core admixtures in the ground slates of both 4nCa and 4lCa are ft 5°'o. Theoclupolc strength in 4>Ca exhibits features characteristic of the weak coupling of an f1i2 neutron tothe lowest ) Male in '"C.\ The / - 5 strength exhibits a similar weak-coupling behaviour. In bothcases Ihe microscopic structure appreciably reduces the transition strength for ihc highest spinmembers of the weak-coupling nuiltiplcts.

NUCLEAR REACTIONS 4n 41Ca(p. p). f = 19 Me V; measured a( F.p . l() 4lCa deducedlevels, J, n. inelastic transition strengths. /. 40-4'C"a deduced cxcilcd-corc admixtures.

Coexistence model, weak-coupling model, DWBA, coupled-channel analysis Unriched targets.

I. Introduction

The coexistence of quadrupole deformed core-excited configurations and (If2p)"configurations in the structure of the low-lying states in calcium nuclei is a wellknown phenomenon ' " 3 ) . The structure of the low-lying stales of *'Ca should beparticularly simple if these status are formed hy coupling the odd neutron to thelow-lying stales of the 40Ca core. Thus in addition to the If and 2p single-particlestates there may occur weak-coupling multiplcls formed by coupling a lf} or 2pjneutron to the collective quadrupole band or the 3" and 5" collective states of the'40Ca core.

' Present address, Institute of Physics, University of Bergen, 5000 Bergen, Norway." Present address, KVI. University of Crontngcn, the Netherlands.

" ' Supported by the National Science Foundation.

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Considerable experimental evidence *) exists on the energy level scheme for 41Ca.Recently, the 21AI(I(1O, pn)*'Ca and the 2"Mg(1BO, 3n)*'Ca reactions56) havebeen used to study the yrast high-spin states some of which could be members ofthese weakly coupled multiplcts. In addition, the 4nK(1He, d)4'Ca and the3OK(3(, d)4lCa reactions 7-8<)) have been used to study the 2p-lh nature of thesehigh spin states.

Inelastic scattering is sensitive to the collective properties ofexcited states and thusis ideally suited to investigations ofthe weak coupling of single-particle and collectivemodes in nuclei. The 4lCa(«, a') reaction has been studied 10) previously and theweak-coupling structure in 4lCa was investigated. The present paper described asimilar investigation using the 4lCa(p, p ) reaction. Although these two reactionsshould give similar information, there are several notable differences.

The (z. *') reaction selectively excites collective slates and gives excellent I-discrimination for a bombarding energy of 28.5 McV. The (a, a ) transition operatoris isoscalar and the inelastic transition density for the strongly absorbed oc-particle issimilar to that for the corresponding electromagnetic operator. Thus the inelastica-lran.sition strengths, derived from a conventional distorted wave (DW) analysisarc closely similar to the isoscalar part of the electromagnetic fl(EA) strength l 0) .In contrast, the (p. p') for 19 MeV protons, gives poor /-discrimination. In addition,the selectivity ofthe (p, p ) reaction is low, presumably due to the existence of spindependent components in the (p. p') transition operator, i.e.. three times as manystates were excited in the 4lCa(p, p') reaction compared with the 4lCa(a, a')reaction. However, the (p, p') reaction is more sensitive to low /-transfer and theenergy resolution achieved in the present work, 12 keV, FWHM, is better than the20 kcV obtained using the (a, «') reaction. The inelastic proton transition operatormay be quite complicated and thus the inelastic proton transition strengths coulddiffer appreciably from the corresponding electromagnetic strength. Jn addition,there may be an appreciable indirect contribution to the reaction mechanism for19 McV protons. Thus it is necessary to check carefully that DW analysis of in-elastic proton scattering leading to well known levels produces reasonable transitionstrengths before drawing conclusions for other excited states.

The purpose of the present work is to compare the transition strengths extractedfrom inelastic proton and j-scattering and then to study the implications of the(p. p') data concerning the structure of 4lCa. The experimental procedure andresults are presented in sect. 2. The analysis of the data using DWBA and coupled-channel calculations is described in sect. 3. A comparison of the results of thepresent and previous work is given in sect. 4, while the implications of the presentresults on the structure of 41Ca is given in sect. 5.

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'Ca 109

2. Experimental procedure and results

The target consisted of 25 /ig/cm2 metallic calcium evaporated onto a 30 /Jg/cm1

carbon backing. The target was enriched to 81.8 % 4lCa with an 18.8 % 4UCu residue.The details of the isotope production and the target preparation are described inrefs. " • 1 2 ) . A s;mi)ar target of''"Ca also was bombarded to facilitate identificationof 40Ca levels excited using the 41Ca target.

The 41Ca(p, p') reaction was studied using 19 MeV protons from the University ofRochester MP tandem Van de Graaff accelerator. The outgoing protons weremomentum analyzed using an Enge split-pole magnetic spectrometer and detected

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5967 +105972 ±106001 ±106016 ±106032 ±106060 ±106081 ±106088 ±106139 ±106166 ±106176 ±106205 ±106237 ±106252 ±106274 +106301 +106320 ±106328 +106356 +10

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') Above 5 MeV spin assignments are only given for levels of special interest to the present work.b) Strength for assumed E3 transitions.') Strength for assumed E2 transitions.d) Strength for assumed E5 transitions.') Probably a doublet.') Energies for levels above taken from Belote et al.2').•) Ref. 1 0).") This work. ') Ref. "). k) See text. ") Ref. 5). °) Ref. " ) .*) Experimental error only. See sect. 3 for additional uncertainty.

en

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114 P. B. VOLD el at.

in the focal plane using Kodak NTB SO /<m photographic plates. Spectra wereobtained at angles from 30' lo 90" in 7.5' steps, while control runs on the 40Catarget were made at 45 and 75". The relative intensity normalization from angle toangle was established by monitoring (he elastic scattering with a scintillator at«ub = 90'.

The absolute cross sections were obtained by observing the elastic scattering andthe two strongest inelastic groups using position-sensitive solid-state detectors inthe focal plane of the magnetic spectrometer and by normalizing the elastic yieldsto optical model predictions. The absolute cross-section scale is believed to be accurateto within 20 %.

A typical spectrum obtained at 0)ab = 90" is displayed in fig. I, A total of 89 levelshave been identified below 6.4 McV excitation energy and these are listed in table I.The energy resolution is 12 keV FWHM. Positions and yields of peaks in the spectrawere obtained using a peak fitting programme which fitted a standard shape takenfrom clearly resolved stro/ig peaks in the spectrum. The background subtractionwas performed manually using the background on either side of the peak. Excitationenergies from the present work are considered accurate to ± 5 keV. The excitationenergies obtained from this work are compared with results of previous work intable I. The level energies, as compiled by Endt and Van der Leun *) andsupplemented with the results of Tabor el al. ' 3 ) , are listed in the first column oftable I, and the energies obtained using the (a, a') reaction are listed in column 2.There is excellent agreement between the accurately known energies and the energiesmeasured in the present work. Thus the present work should give a consistent energyscale for levels in the energy region from 5 to 6.4 MeV. It is notable that the (p, p')reaction excites almost all known levels up to 6.4 MeV in excitation energy.

3. Distorted wave analysis

The inelastic scattering data were analyzed using the DWBA code DWUCK '*).A collective vibrational model form factor was used in the calculations. The inelastictransition strengths were extracted following the ideas of Bernstein '5) as outlined inref. 1 0 ) ; that is, the inelastic transition strength fl(p, p'; /, Jt -» Jf) is defined as

B(p, p';/,./,• » - * 4n (1)

where J, and 7, are the spins of the residual and target nuclei, respectively; R is thereal optical model radius ; / ? „ = ! .2/4* is the radius for a uniform charge distribu-tion; C, is a correction factor to account for (he more reasonable Fermi chargedistribution.

The shape of the angular distribution for inelastic scattering is weakly dependenton the angular momentum transfer in the present experiment. For example, the/ = 3 and / = 5 distributions are almost identical in the angular range studied.

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4lCa 115

Therefore, it is necessary to select carefully the optical model parameters in order toreproduce this small /-dependence. Four optical model parameter sets were tried incalculations to see which set best fit data for elastic scattering on 41Ca and inelasticscattering to the strongly excited 3.737 MeV 3" and 4.492 MeV 5" states in 40Ca.

TAIII I 2

Optical model parameters

Set

ABCD

Ref- <MeV)

'*) 49.57") 49.03'•) 50.82'") 48.92

(fm)

1.211,2331.171.16

(fm)

0.660.5690.750.75

W(MeV)

0000

W(MeV)

30.229.3629.3616.28

r,(fm)

1.2011.1381.321.37

(fm)

0.5470.5590.5270.63

(MeV)

27.415.8824.824.16

r, „(fm)

1.0161.011.011.064

" . 0(fmj

0.3510.33!0.750.738

The four parameter sets, listed in table 2, are taken from previous work. Set A isbased on a fit to angulur distribution and polarization data for elastic scatteringof 17.5 to 21.7 MeV protons on 40Ca by Dicello el ai 16). Set B, due to VanOers l 7) , is based on a fit of elastic scattering of 10 to 180 MeV protons on 40Ca,while set C was obtained by Becchetti and Greenlees '8) from a fit to elastic scatteringfor ^ 50 MeV protons on A ^ 40 nuclei. Set D is due to Gruhn el al. 19) and wasobtained from a fit of elastic scattering of 25 to 30 MeV protons on 40Ca. All fourparameter sets fairly well reproduce the elastic scattering data for 4lCa. The qualityofthe fit is illustrated in fig. 2 for three ofthe parameter sets. Unfortunately DWBAcalculations using these four parameter sets did not simultaneously reproduce the/ = 3 and / = 5 angular distributions for inelastic scattering in '"'Ca as illustrated

1.0

0.1

4'Ca(p,p),E=l9MeV

V— DICELLO— VAN OERS— BECCHETTI

20 40 60 60

8cm100

Fig. 2. Elastic scattering data for "Ca wilh optical model predictions '*• "•'"). The cross sections arcgiven relative to the Rutherford cross section.

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116 P. B. VOLD ei at.

100

90

Fig. 3. Experimental angular distributions of inelastic scattered protons from 40Ca along with DWBApredictions. The solid lines represent ihe DWBA results with the parameter ol'ref. '") and the dashed lines

represent those ol ref. '*).

in fig. 3. Parameter sets A and B both provided a good fit to the data for / = 3 butgave / = 5 angular distributions which were flatter than the data. On the otherhand, parameter sets C and O produced satisfactory agreement for / = 5 but notfor / = 3. The transition strengths, 5(p, p'; /, J, -» J,) for the lowest states in 40Ca,extracted using parameter set A, are compared with values from inelastic a-scatter-ing 1 0) , inelastic proton 19) scattering and electromagnetic measurements 30) intable 3. These transition strengths were obtained by fitting the calculated distributionsto the data at angles from 0 = 30' to 90'. Parameter set B gives results similar toset A, while sets C and D result in a 15% to 25% increase in the extracted transitionstrengths. The electromagnetic, (a, a') and (p, p') transition strengths are in goodagreement for the 3" states and moderate agreement for the 2 + state. However, thepresent work gives a significantly larger transition strength to the 5" state. In this

(MeV)

3.743.904.49

Jm

Y2*5'

TAUH 3

inelastic transition strengths in "Ca '

DWBA

18- I01

1204.4x10'

cc

17x10'943.4x10'

(p.p'n25 MeV

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') B(/;0* - J') in e1 • fmJl.») Ref. '"). ') Ref. ") .d) Deduced average value from the cross sections al two angles.•) Ref. " ) .') Experimental error ±20%. See sect. 3 for additional uncertainty.

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•'Ca 117

E,>2460

30 10 50 60 70 BO 90

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10

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118 P. B. VOLD nul.

connection, it is interesting to note that Gruhn et til. " ) found that the proton in-elastic transition strengths for / = 5 were reduced by almost a factor of two whenthe bombarding energy was increased from 25 to 40 McV.

Coupled-channels calculations were performed using the code CHUCK '*) inorder to test the influence of channel coupling. Calculations were performed for thelowest 3" and 5" stales in 4nCa using a B( E2; 3" -• 5) taken from rcf. -°). The shapesof the angular distributions were indistinguishable from the DW predictions. Thedirect two way coupling between the elastic and inelastic channels increased theextracted transitions strength by about 10 % for / = 3 and about 30','o for / = 5,whereas the change due to the indirect transition via the intermediate state wasnegligible. Since the corresponding / = 3 and / = 5 distributions in 41Ca arefractionated in reasonable accordance with (he simple weak-coupling picture as(3 x f,) and (5" x f,) multiplcls (see seel. 5), the cross section to the individual statesin *'Ca are appreciably reduced as compared to •*°Ca. Ihe influence of channelcoupling is therefore expected to be smaller for the 4lCa(p, p') reaction.

The comparison shown in table 3 suggests that the fi(p, p'; /. J, -* J,) derivedfrom the present data are significantly in that they agree with the electromagnetic and(a, a') values within the ±30",', uncertainty resulting from (he somewhat modeldependent procedure used to analyse the data. The relative transition strengths areprobably less sensitive to Ihe DW analysis procedure. A caveat is appropriate in thatthis argument may fail for weak transition strengths since the (p, p') transitionoperator is complicated; i.e. the form factor may be sensitive to the microscopicstructure. In addition, contributions from nondircct processes may be non-negligible.

The 41Ca(p, p') data were analyzed using optical model parameter set A in theDW calculations. Several states were observed as pure 1=2 transitions with goodfits to the data. Four of the observed transitions to known negative-parity statesexhibit distributions distinctly different from pure/ = 2, thus indicating an admixtureof / = 4 (see fig. 4). These transitions therefore were assumed to be due to mixed/with/ = 2 + 4, and the relative intensities of the two contributions were determinedby filling the DW predictions for / = 2 and / = 4 to the data using a least-squareprocedure. This procedure is somewhat uncertain in that no experimental pure 1=4transition was observed to lest the / = 4 calculations. Thus a ± 100 % uncertaintyis assigned to the transition strengths extracted for these mixed-/lransiiions. Since the1=1 and 1=5 distributions were nearly indistinguishable, it was not possible tosearch for/ = 3 + 5 mixtures. The (a, a') showed no cases of/ = 3 + 5 mixing, and the/-assignments from the (a, a') data were used in the analyses for the weak / = 3 and/ = 5 transitions. Examples of the experimental angular distributions and DWpredic for the 4lCa(p, p')4'Ca reaction are displayed in fig. 4. The peak crosssection, corresponding angle and the extracted fl(p, p' ; t\\'-*J) obtained via ax' fit of the DW predictions to the data, are listed in the right-hand column of table I.

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4 1Ca

4. Comparison with other work in 4lCa

I f )

The spin assignments listed in column 2 of table I are taken from rcf. 4) updatedusing the results of rel's. 5 '"• " • 2 a ) . Some additional spin-parity assignments canbe made on the basis of the 3vK(a, il) [rel's. "•")]. 4"K('Hi;, d) and J"K(d, n)[rcf. 7)] reactions and the present results. A few cases of special interest regardingspin assignments arc commented upon briefly.

The upper member of the 3613.0 and 3613.5 kcV doublet has been assignedJ" = J" from p-)' correlation measurements11). Thus, the measured / = 3distribution in the (2, 2') and (p, p') experiments implies excitation of the lowermember. The inelastic scattering data coupled with the spin and parity limitationsof ref. n ) leads to J" = | f -•]+ for the 3613.0 MeV state.

The 3973 keV level has been assigned J" = (5. J)+ by ref. '3) , while the4lCa(2, 2') suggested J" = !

25+ from the observation of pure / = 5. However, ihc

distinct 1 = 6 distribution observed in the 31)K(a, d) reaction *•'') rules out spinvalues smaller than ','*. Recent 2B)y-correlation work determines the spin to be l-r +.This level is also seen with /p = I + 3 in (3He, d) and (d, n) reactions supporting theassignment ol' J" = v,1*. The same argument applies to the 6067 keV state whereagain the combined results of the (2, d)and (3He, d) reactions give J" = '•} *.

Qualitatively, the 4I Ca(p, p') reaction contains approximately the same informationas the 4lCa(2, 2') reaction for the strongly populated positive-parity states whereasmore detailed and comprehensive results are obtained for the weakly excited negative-parity states. The inelastic transition strengths show very good general agreementbetween the two reactions for / = 3 and / = 5 distributions. However, there are afew exceptions; i.e. the / = 5 and / = 3 strengths for the 3973 and 4327 keV states,respectively, are about twice as large in the (p, p') reaction, whereas for the 4730,4813 and 5281 keV state the results are two or three times larger in the (2, a')reaction. The / = 2 transition strength derived from the (2, a') reaction are poorbecause this reaction is unfavoured for! = 2. The agreement for the 1 = 2 transition

7ABI.I 4

Comparison of transition strengths for " C J

Theory ")BIF.I, ] - J")U'* fm")

work J) electromagnetic *)

W422(109246229593370

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120 P. B VO1.D el al.

strengths between the (p, p')and (a, a') reactions is excellent for the strong 1.944 MeVstate, but the (p, p') strengths are consistently smaller than the (a, a') strengths for theweaker / = 2 transitions.

Table 4 displays a comparison between inelastic transition strengths of this workand electromagnetic transilions6i 13) in 4lCa. Theoretical calculations as predictedby the coexistence model of Gerace and Green ') are also given. The electromagneticand (p, p') transition strengths agree within the experimental uncertainties for thetransitions to the 1942, 2009, 2959 and 3369 keV stales, whereas there appears to bea discrepancy between the two results for the 2462 keV transition. The (p, p') datafavoured a mixture of / = 2+4 but a pure / = 4 angular distribution is not in-consistent with the data. (See also discussion in sect. 3.)

5. Nuclear structure of 4lCa

The inelastic transition strengths are summarized in Tig. 5, while the summedstrengths for the different multipole transitions are cited in table 5. The summed

\/1eV

)

LLT

6.0

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horizontal lines. The spins and panties indicated for some of the transitions, are taken from table 1.

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TAULI 5

Summed proton inelastic transition strengths in "Ca

121

fm")')

/ = 2/ = .1/ = 4/ = 5

8817 2 x I0 1

I 6 x 10-"3'Jx 10°

') The sum includes levels up lo 5.5 MeV.

quadrupole strength for the (p, p') reaction is about half the summed strengthobtaining using the (a, a') reaction. However, the (a, a') reaction value is less reliablesince the (a, a') reaction is less sensitive to I = 2 excitation and thus only upperlimits were assigned for weak 1=2 transitions seen with the (a, <x') reaction.

The summed quadrupole strength can be used to obtain information on theamount of core-excited admixture in the 4lCa(g.s.) wave function. Thus, if weassume that the *'Ca(g.s.) wave function can be written |4'Ca> = [(1—a)2]*|fj> + 2|core>, the core admixture coefficient a for the *'Ca ground state can beevaluated using the procedure outlined in the (a, a') paper 10). This procedure isbased on the assumption that all the quadrupole strength to the ground state has beenincluded in the sum and that the proton inelastic and electromagnetic transitionstrengths are equal. These assumptions may be questionable in that additional/ = 2 strength may lie above 5.5 MeV and the (p, p') and electromagnetic transitionstrengths may differ appreciably for weak transitions in spite of the excellentcorrespondence obtained for the strong transitions listed in tables 3 and 4. Theresulting value for the excited-core admixture (a2) in the *'Ca is (5.5 ±2) %, whichresults in a ground-state static quadrupole moment of — 12 e • fm2. A similar analysisof the summed / = 2 strength for the 40Ca(p, p ) reaction data gives a core-excited admixture of (4.5 ±2)% for the ground state of 40Ca. These values forcore admixtures in 4 0 '4 'Ca are half of the values given by the less reliable (a, a')reaction and about 0.3 times the theoretical values ')• A 4lCa ground-state coreadmixture of £ 10 % is suggested by magnetic moment messurements " ) in 41 • *2Ca.It is interesting that the almost identical core admixture in the ground states of40- 41Ca agrees with the results obtained from one neutron pickup2 4 '") in 41Ca; thatis, the structure of the 4lCa ground state looks very much like a If j neutron coupledto the 40Ca ground state.

The / = 3 transition strength for the 41Ca(p, p ) reaction has a centroid at3.76 MeV and summed strength which is 89 % of the / = 3 strength to the 3.74 MeV3" state seen in the 40Ca(p, p') reaction. This suggests a weak-coupling interpreta-tion in terms of Ihe (3" x f j) J configuration for these positive-parity states in *'Ca.The weak-coupling picture predicts that the transition strengths for the individualmembers of the septuplet should obey the relation that fl(p, p'; 3, J -» J'g.s.) =

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P. B. VOLD n ,(/

p, p' ; 3, 3" -»0 + ). Although there are more than seven positive-parity levels'Ca excited by / = 3, it is possible to sum the strength lor each multiplet spin^and compare these with the / = 3 strength to the 3", 3.74 MeV state in 40Ca.

vn in table 6, only the I * and y + summed strengths fall appreciably below 4

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the weak-coupling val i^H^vcvcr. it is for the 5' states l ^ | | H ^ a') and (p, p )transition strengths ci^jH^he most. The (i. »') data would inct.'.wp|[v,. total fractionfor the V s tates^Bp?;and not appreciably change the values^fc^tbrother spinmembers of ihoJj^F M. The V' strength is weaker than either th^ft^i^.couplingor the [f d r j ^ j p i d c l s predict. This is not fully understood a It hoW>.,-tynpletealignment <i/Jp>(l;) neutron and some components, other than (f|dji^t^)»» thecollective^Skatc may be blocked by the Puuh principle. The fraction

sepluplel and the 1.5 MeV splitting between the centroidmembers indicates that the weak-coupling picture is only a >.'j^

<^?'iiation to the truth.jut 75 "„ of the 1=5 strength to the 4.49 MeV 5 state in 4DCa was observed

'Ca. However, application of the weak-coupling model to the / = 5 strength ist feasible because the low-spin members of the multiplet have not been identified.

of the

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W(p. p'; 3. 3 ->()'). Although there are more than seven positive-parity levelsin ""Ca excited by / = 3, it is possible to sum the strength for each multiple! spinvalue and compare these with the / = 3 strength to the 3 . 3.74 McV state in 4"Ca.As shown in table 6, only the \ * and ' / ' summed strengths fall appreciably below

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the weak-coupling values. However, it is for the § * stales that the (j . a') and (p. p')transition strengths deviate the most. The (2. 7.') data would increase the total fractionfor the S * states to 79 "„ and not appreciably change the values for the other spinmembers of the multiplet. The ' / * strength is weaker than either the weak-couplingor the [f;dj ' j ^ ' models predict. This is not fully understood although completealignment of the (f.) neutron and some components, other than (f'd[ ')3 , in thecollective 3" stale may be blocked by the Pauli principle. The fractionation of themembers ol'the septuple! and the 1.5 McV splitting between the centroid energiesof the septuple! members indicates that the weak-coupling picture is only a crudeapproximation to the truth.

About 75 "„ of the / = 5 strength to the 4.49 MeV 5 state in 4"Ca was observedin 4lC'a. However, application of the weak-coupling model (o the / = 5 strength isnot feasible because the low-spin members of the multiple! have no! been identified.

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'Ca 123

It is interesting to note, however, that the ^ + and ^ + state are consistent with apure weak-coupling fragmentation whereas the l

2-* state represents only about 50 %of the predicted weak-coupling strength. It is believed "•2") that this is a consequenceof the blocking of the complete alignment of the f( neutron and the almost

pure24. 2 5 ) (f,dj ' )5 structure of (he 4.49 MeV 5" states in 40Ca.

'6. Summary

Angular distributions have been measured for elastic and inelastic scattering of19 MeV protons on 40 ' 4lCa. A total of 89 levels was identified below 6.4 MeV in 4lCawith an energy resolution of 12 keV. Inelastic transition strengths have been extractedusing the ideas of Bernstein 15)and these correlate well with inelastic a-scattering l0)and electromagnetic values 20).

A model dependent analysis of the quudrupole transition strengths suggests thatthe ground states of 40Ca and 41Ca have identical core admixed components ofabout 5"/o. The / = 3 strength in 4lCa exhibits features characteristic of weakcoupling of an f, neutron to the lowest 3 " state in 40Ca. Similarly, the less completedata for / = 5 excitation suggests a weak-coupling interpretation in terms of a f i

neutron and the lowest 5" state in 40Ca. However, in both cases, the highest spinmember of the muitiplets have reduced transiiion strengths presumably due to theinfluence of blocking in the microscopic structure of these states.

The authors wish to thank Professor Ole Hansen for instigating the present workand for his involvement in the early stages of the experiment.

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P A P E R III

THE EFFECTIVE T=l TWO-PARTICLE

MATRIX ELEMENTS IN THE fp SHELL

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THE EFFECTIVE f = 1 TWO-PARTICLE MATRIX ELEMENTS IN THE fp SHELL

P.B. VOLD ', D. CLING, R.N. BOYD and H. CLEMENT2

Nuclear Structure Research Laboratory , University of Rochester, Rochester, N. Y. 1462 7, USA

W.P. ALFORDPhysics Department, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada 4

and

J.A. KUEHNHRMcMastcr University, Hamilton, Canada "

Received 28 October 1977

The "'c.ifi!, p)42Ca reaction has been used to locate the strength distributions for p3 / 2 and p1 / 2 transfer in 42Ca.Iftective (l'7/2)2. f-j/2P3,'2 and f7/2Pi/2 two-body matrix elements arc derived from the data and compared 1otheoretical predictions.

Knowledge of the two-body part of the nuclearHamiltonian is required in order to understand com-plex spectra in terms of the nuclear shell model. Ex-perimentally, such information can be obtained bydetermining the effective two-particle matrix elementsof the residual two-nuclcon interaction. These tmlrixelements arc closely related to energy spectra of nucleiwith two nuclcons outside closed shells. However, ifthe shell closure is not perfect, the individual spincomponents of the two-particle multiplcts are oftenfractionated. Therefore, the energy centroids of thefractionated two-particic configurations need to bedetermined to extract the two-body matrix elements.This requires identification of the major componentsof the two-particle configuration of (he relevant /-orbitals, which can only be obtained unambiguouslyfrom one-nucleon transfer reaction data.

The recent production of a 4 lCa target has madepossible such studies of the two-particle spectra usingthe 4 lCa(3lle,d)42Sc and 41Ca(d,p)42Ca reactions

Supported in part by rVorgcs Alrncnvitcnskapcligc l-'urs-VningsrSd. Present address: Institute of Physics, Universityof Bergen, 5000 Bergen, Norway.Present address: Scktion Physik, University of Miinchcn,8046 Garchinp, West Germany.

3 Supported by a grant from the National Science Founda-tion.

* Supported by the National Research Council of Canada.

(1 .2 | . Single-nuclcon transfer on a non-/.ero spinlarpcl may proceed by a mixture of several /• and/-valucs. The shape of the differential cross section uni-quely determines the transferred /, but is insensitive tothe transferred /-value. The above work indicated largefractionation of the / = I strength and suggested con-siderable mixing of P3/2 and p | / 2 transfer. The highsensitivity of the vector analyzing power (i7"|]) to thetransferred/ provides an excellent method for deter-mining the spcctroscopic strength for the individual/transfers for a mixed transition. The present41 Ca(d.p)42Ca measurement was undertaken to util-ize this feature to locate both the fractionated f7/2P3/2and (-112P112 configurations in 42Ca.

The 4 I Ca(d,p)42Ca reaction was studied using 11MeV polari/ed declerons from the McMaster Univer-sity PN tandem Van M Graaff accelerator. The targetconsisted of 81.8^ 41C'aand 18.2%40Ca and had athickness of 25 /ug/ci>,-. The reaction protons weremomentum analyzed in an Huge split-pole magneticspectrometci and detected in the focal plane usingKodak NTH 50 im photographic emulsions. Spectrawere obtained at each angle from successive runs hav-ing spin-up, spin-down vnd unpolarizcd dcuterons andwere laken at angles froi 1 10° to 50° in 5° steps and50° to 70" in 10° steps with an energy resolution of15 keV FW1IM. The rel itive normalization for thedifferenl polarizations and from angle-to-angle was

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established by monitoring the elastically scatteredparticles with a solid state detector at 30° as well aswith beam cliargc intcgiation. The quench ratio tech-nique was used to determine the vector polarisation ofthe beam, which was typically 0.7. The absolute crosssection scale WJS established by normalizing the crosssections of the 5211 keV level at 15° to the 4 lCa(d.p)v.\luc of ref. | 2 | . In doing this, the 1 2 MeV data ofrcf. \2\ weie extrapolated to 11 MeV using the DWcalculations.

The present data were analyzed using the codeDWIK'K [3). Several optical model parameter sets wereinvestigated in order to test which could best reproduceboth ibe differential cross section and the analyzingpower. It was found thai Ihe dculcron set obtained byLolu and Haeberli [4| with a minor modification ofthe real well depth to 108 MeV, combined willi theproton set of Dicello ct al. | 5 | gave the best simul-taneous fit. Standard finite range and non-locality cor-rections [3] were included in all channels.

The spcctroscopic strengths were extracted from aleast-squares fit analysis of the DW curves to the crosssection and vector analyzing power data. Examplesof the DW fits to the data are displayed in fig. 1. Ex-cept for the fit of the vector analyzing power for theP\/t transition, the predicted curves are in good agree-ment with the data. Since extraction of reliable spec-troscopic factors for the scparale //-values in a mixedtransition requires good fits for (he pure transitions,the experimental analyzing power leading to the 1/2"state in 41Ca. shown as a dashed curve in fig. 1, wasused in the subsequent analysis.

While the /= I strength is fractionated overall encr-g> range of 6 MeV. almost no mixing of PJM and p\nwas observed. About 90" of the p ^ strength is ob-served in the energy region 4.5 6.5 McV. while thewhole pj/2 strength occurs between 6.6 and 7.8 McV.The / = 3 strength below 4 MeV is confirmed by thepresent work to be due to f7/2 transfer as assumed inrcf. (2| . However, the present analyzing power dataindicate that (here is no detectable admixture of/ = 3transfer mixed in with the strongly excited / = I tran-sitions in the 4.5 6.5 McV region in contradictionwith the results of rcf. [2 | .

The summed spcctroscopic strengths observed inthe present experiment for the ff7y2 )2- ^7/2P3/2 a n ^hjlPMl niultiplets arc shown in table 1. It is seenthat these strengths represent about 65% of the shell

a

§15

I ,-3"3i«e.

' , - S i " >e.

A, \\r

60 40 50

lip. 1. Angular distributions of the cross section and analyzingpower for pure f7;3, P3,j and Pj/2 transitions to states in **Ca.The solid lines represent DW results, calculated as described inthe text. The dashed line is based on the analyzing power dataof the 1/2" state at 3943 keV in 41Ca (see text for details).

model limit. The presence of [8%40Ca in the 41Catarget made a simultaneous analysis of transitionswith the same/ in the 4<)Ca(d.p)41 Ca reaction possibleallowing ;i direct comparison of the relative spectro-scopic factor sums for these orbitals in the two reac-tions. The summed spcctroscopic factors for f7y2.p3/2 and P|/2 transfer to 4 1 Ca are 0.71,0.78 and0.65. respectively, of the shell-model value. Moreover,the summed spcctroscopic strengths for these sametransfers to each spin of both the ((j^)2 a r |d f7/2P3/2multiplcts in 4 lCa(d,p) arc within 10% of the same

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•> 1

3*

r~ - , - '

2 IF''

U'

•<,i

S ' 1 ' 5 J i G - 8 I ? 3 4 1 2 3 4

' < ' >i ' r ' ' ,

I ip ? Tin1 encr^v dtstrltninnns .>f lltv *pr* bu.si npu "ilrcnplhin 4 3 ( i lor 'he titl fcrcn' fp ufr-it.iK uhscrvrd in Ihc presentrxpcrinH-nl

frai I K H I " I : lu ' -111-11 HKHICI V I I I IC 1 Iicsc icsulls nul l -

U t e l l i . ; ! I ' »e m.?|(>r t o in ponen Is n f I he spectroscopie

sin-nci ' is lor these orbit.ils. h.ur been ident i f ied A

lenorm. i l i / . i l ion l .K l iu ni I 0 ( IS ic<|iiircd In lump

these vi nu: IK- ' I urc i ipths in In .igrcenicnl w i th I he shell-

mt t j t ' l pK'dk Moris is no! unre.ison.iblc Lonsit lcni ig I he

well-Known u iu i rt.unlies .issoLialcd vvilh HW analyses.

The spix i rosLu|-k <nrciipths for il ie individual spin

members " | l!n' l ^ ' i p i o cnn l igur . i lmn ;ire biised tin

an assumed spin value of 3+ for (lie 5211 keV level indisagreement with 2+ from (lie 40Ca(l,p)42Ca reac-(ion |6]. The 2+ assignment would lead to an"V/2P.V2h* s t r e n g | ' 1 which exceeds the average spec-troscopie factor for the ( ^ ^ 3 / 2 ) / configurations bytOO1? and would imply that no (f7^2P3/2^3+ strengthis identified; the unknown p3y^ transitions representfar too little strength to account for (hat missingstrength. However, identification of two close-lyinglevels at 5208 kcV and 5215 keV via the 39K(a.p7)reaction [7| suggests that the (d,p) and (t,p) reactionsexcite different levels.

Identification of the single-particle strengths of the(•JI2. P3/2 und P|/2 orbitals allows determination ofthe energy centroids ef/'j/^./) for these two-particlemultiplets which are listed in table I. The correspond-ing T= I effective two-body matrix elementsA'(/l/2./) can be derived from these centroids bytaking1 the energies with respect to the referenceenergy at which the multiplet would occur if therewere no residual two-body interaction. The referenceenergies used arc 3109 keV, 5291 keV and 7174 keVfor the (f-7/2)2. ^7/2^3/2 ""^ *7/2Pl/2 multiplets,respectively. The latter two were obtained from theenergy centroids for the p3/2 and p t n single-particleconfigurations in 41Ca given by the 4°Ca(d,p)41Careaction |8| .

About 10°; ofthep3/2 transfer strength leads tostates bclwecn 6.3 MeV and 7.1 MeV for which thespin assignments are unknown. This unassignedstrength rfroduccs the largest uncertainty in the ex-tracted matrix elements. One plausible distribution ofthis unassigned strength would be to assign 3+ to the6.82 MeV state and to distribute the remaining 60%of the strength equally among the other spin values.This would result in a summed strength of 0.70 of theshell-model value for each spin and in values of/•.(f7/,.p3/2../) which are 0.35,0.40, 0.13 and 0.06MeV higher than quoted for7= 2. 3.4 and 5, respec-tively.

The data suggest !hat the major fragments of (he( l 7 p) 2 and I7/2P multiplets have been located. How-ever, unobserved minor fragments at high excitationcnerps could result m an appreciable shift in theextracted ccnlroids The spreading of the strengthdistribution due to the residual two-body interactionwas estimated by calculating the theoretical spectro-scopie strength distributions in Ihc fp space using the

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PHYSICS LETTERS

Table 1The fp sircngtli and effective two-particle matrix elements in 42Ca.

2 Jwiuuy 1978

J"

0*2*4+

6*aU

2*3+

4+5*unknownaU

all

<27F+1)S

1.226.27

10.6117.1035.20

2.963.785.936.882.91

22.46

9.94

Sshellmodel

0.610.630.590.660.63

0.590.540.660.63

0.70

0.62

'(JtilJ)(McV)

0.582.122.863.192.79

4.435.215.055.78

5.42

7.39

£i/i/i/)(Nexp.

-2.53-0.99-0.25

0.08-0.32

-0.86-0.08-0.25

0.49

0.13

0.21

leV)exp.corrected a )

-2.06-0.94-0.20

0.17-0.28

-0.72-0.08-0.19

0.49

0.17

0.24

Kuo-Brown [9]McGrory (10)

-2.22-1.1$-0.36+0.29-0.27

-0.86-0.03-0.05+0.15

-0.10

-0.14

a ' Corrected for the strength, predicted by the (fp)J shell model calculations, to lie above 7.9 MeV in excitation energy and hencewould be missed by the present measurement.

modified Kuo-Brown {9] matrix elements of McGrory(10]. This calculation indicates that the strength lostat high energy (above 7.9 McV) is extremely small(<3%). The extracted two-body matrix elements cor-rected for omission of this higli-lying strength areIjsted in column 7 of table 1. This correction is insig-nificant for all except the 0+ centroid. Although themajor fractionation is due to mixing with core-excited configurations, the interaction matrix ele-ments are not expected to be large enough to push asignificant fraction of the two-particle configurationsbeyond 7.9 MeV in excitation energy.

Column 8 in table 1 lists the rcnormalized f;/2Pmatrix elements derived from the Hamada-Johnstonnucleon-nucleon potential by Kuoand Brown [9],The (f7/2>2 matrix elements result from a least-squares fit by McGrory [10| to the excitation ener-gies of 29 states and seven binding energies for nucleiwith/) = 42-44. The overall agreement between ourexperimental two-body matrix elements and the val-ues inferred from previous work is good. It is worth

noting, however, that the average contributions to theenergy of the two-body interaction for the f7nP3/2and fy/2Pi/2 configurations are measured to be slight-ly repulsive, whereas Kuo and Brown [9] predict asmall attractive monopole contribution.

References

11 ] P.I). Void ct al., to be published.[2 j O. Ilansen et al., Nucl. Phys. A243 (1975) 100.[3 | P.D. Kunz, University of Colorado, unpublished.|4] J.M. Lohr and W. Haeberli, Nucl. Phys. A232 (1974)

381.[5 | J.P. Dicelloctal., Phys. Rev. C4 (1971) 1130.(6J J.H. Bjcrrcgiiard el al., Nucl. Phys. A103 (1967) 33.(7) E. Bitterwolf, thesis, University of Freiburg, unpub-

lished.[8| D.C. Kochcr and W. Hacberli. Nucl. Phys. A196 (1972)

225.|9) T.T.S. Kuo and G.E. Brown, Nucl. Phys. Al 14 (1968)

241.f 101 JD- McGrory, Phys. Rev. C8 (1973)693.

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P A P E R IV

NUCLEAR SPECTROSCOPY OF THE (f?/2) ,

FROM THE 41Ca(3,p)42Ca REACTION

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AND f7/2P1/2 '-lUI/I'IPLETS FROM THE

"'CafSjp) 1<2Ca REACTION

P.B. VOLD,*t, D." CLINE, R.N. BOYD AND H. CLEMENT**

Nuclear Structure Research LaboratoryttUniversity of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627

W.I?. ALFORD

Physics Department, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

J.A. KUEHNER

McMaster University, Hamilton, Canadattt

Abstract: Angular distributions of the cross section and the

vector analyzing power hav'e been measured for the

4 *Ca (d,p)'' 2Ca reaction using 11 MeV deuterons. The vector

analyzing power data have been used to determine the total

angular momentum j of the captured neutron for 42 positive

parity levels. Spectroscopic strengths were extracted

separately for each of the allowed j-values which con-

tributed to the cross section and identification of the

major components of the f?/T'PT/O ancJ pi/2 strengfch

distributions have been obtained. An almost total absence

of mixing of the P-wo and Pi/? strength was observed. Of 32

states populated by pure 1=1 transfer, only two consist of

a mixture of P3/5 a n d P 1 / T Tlie e f f e c t i v e ' ^

(f7/2p3/2! and "7/2Fl/2) two-particle matrix elements

are compared with the modified Kuo-Brown matrix elements

•Present address: Institute of Physics, University of Bergen,N-5014 Bergen-U, Norway

**Present address: Sektion Physik , University of Munchen,8046 Garching, West Germany

tSupported in part by Norges Almenvitenskapelige Forskningsrad

ftSupported by a grant from the National Science Foundation

ttt3upported by the National Research Council of Canada

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of McGrory. They agree to within a few hundred keV. The

monopole energy centroid of the ^1/2^2/2) a n d (f7/2pl/2>

multiplets are measured to be slightly repulsive, whereas

Kuo-Brown predict a small attractive monopole contribution.

NUCLEAR REACTIONS " ° "* xCa (d,p) , E = 11 MeV, measured a(Ep,6)

and iT,.,(9). "Ca deduced levels, £,j,7r,J, spectroscopic

factors. Enriched, radioactive target.

1. introduction

The basic features of the nuclear shell model are most easily

seen in fairly simple nuclear systems, e.g., those near closed

shells. In particular, the effects of the two-body part of

the nuclear Hamiltonian are especially simple in systems having

a closed shell ±2 nucleons. Imperfect shell closures can cause

fragmentation of the two-particle configurations in such nuclei.

In spite of this, measurement of the energy centroids of the

two-particle configuration in such nuclei allows for a direct

determination of the two-body matrix elements.

The structure of low-lying levels of 42Ca is expected to

be composed primarily of the (f7/2'2 two-neutron shell model

configurations, although higher lying levels will arise from

(f7 ,_P3 ._) and ^-j/2^1/2^ two-neutron configurations. The

apparent existence1) of 4p-2h core-excited states results in

fractionation of the basic two-neutron shell model structure.

Such effects are clearly demonstrated by experimental studies2}

of the E2 properties of low-lying states in **2Ca as well as

by the single-nucleon transfer reaction data3"6) such as

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djtj'^Ca, ^3Ca(3He,a)"2Ca and ** ]Ca (d,p) 1>2Ca.

The large fractionation of the I = 1 (& is the transferred

orbital angular momentum) strength observed in the " xCa(d,p) l*2Ca

reaction5) . indicates a complex (fp) spectrum, and a consider-

able mixing of the P3/2 a n^ P1/2 t r a n s ^ e r strength would appear

likely. Because the shape of the differential cross section

depends almost completely on I, a separate identification of

the P0/2 ar>|3 P1/2 s t r e n 9 t n is not possible from the previous

work5) The pronounced differences in the angular distribu-

tions of the vector analyzing powers in a (d,p) reaction initiated

with vector polarized deuterons, 'however, allows such an identi-

fication once the H has been identified from the differential

cross section data.

The present "* 'cafSjp) " aCa reaction study was undertaken

primarily to use this characteristic feature of the analyzing

power to study the (f^/oPT/?' ant^ ^7/2pl/2^ configurations in

42Ca. The experimental procedure and results are described in

section 2. The DWBA analysis of the data and a discussion of

£j sensitivity in a mixed transition for both the cross section

and the analyzing power are presented in section 3. A short

discussion is given in section 4 of spin assignments together

with the spectroscopic information extracted from the present

measurement. In particular, the (f_, ?)2, (f_..p. ,_) and

{f_ ,.p. ,_) two-particle energy centroids and the corresponding

effective two-body matrix elementa are discussed. (An abbre-

viated version of part of this work has been published previously7).

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2. Experimental Procedure and Results

The 4 *Ca (d,p) "*2Ca reaction was studied using 11 MeV polar-

ized deuterons from the McMaster University FN tandem Van de

Graaff accelerator. The polarized beam was produced by a Lamb-

shift -source8) and had an intensity on target ranging

from 50-100 nA. • The quench ratio technique9) was used to

determine the vector polarization of the beam and a value of 0.7

was typically found.

The target consisted of 81.8% M1Ca and 18.2% ^ C a and.had

a thickness of 25 ug/cm2. it was vacuum evaporated onto a 30

ug/cm2 carbon backing. The deta'ils of the isotope production

and the target preparation are given in refs. &• and 10. The

presence of the **°Ca contamination allowed for a simultaneous

study of the u °Ca{3,p) "• xCa reaction.

The reaction protons were momentum analyzed in the focal

plane of a magnetic spectrograph using Kodak NTB 50 um photo-

graphic emulsions. Spectra were obtained at each angle for

successive runs having spin up, spin down and unpolarized incident

deuterons (to eliminate any effects from tensor polarized admix-

tures in the beam), and were taken at angles from 10° to 50°in 5°

steps and 50° to 70° in 10° steps. The energy resolution was

15 keV FWHM. The relative normalization for the different.polari-

zations and from angle to angle was established by monitoring

the elastically scattered particles with a solid state detector

at 30°.

The analyzing power of the elastically scattered deuterons

at 30° was obtained.by using the charge collected in a Faraday

cup as normalization. The resulting analyzing power of -0.028±0.012

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is in good agreement with the prior result of -0.033±0.004 for

"*°Ca obtained at the same energy and angle11). The former

value was used in obtaining the relative spin-up/spin-down

intensity ratio from the monitor spectra.

The absolute cross section scale was established by normal-

izing the cross section of the 5211 keV level at 15° to the

l*1Ca(d/p) value of ref. 5. In doing this, the 12 MeV data of

ref. 5 were extrapolated to 11 MeV using the DWBA calculations.

Proton spectra obtained from spin-up and spin-down deuteron

beams are compared in fig. 1 to indicate the different yields in

the two cases. Almost all of the 94 levels identified in the

previous study of ^ !Ca (d,p) **2Ca reaction5) were observed in the

present work. However, our analyzing power data for the weakly

excited negative parity states were statistically inadequate

for a detailed analysis.

3. DWBA Analysis

Reaction calculations used to analyze the present data were

performed with the DWBA code DWUCK12). The ^ C a ground state

spin of 7/2 means that an 1 = 1 transition to 3 + and 4 + states in

l*2Ca can proceed via a mixture of p . and p 1 / ? transfer.

An accurate determination of the relative P-,/2 anc^ Pi/? strengths

requires that good fits be obtained for the pure transitions.

The pure transitions for the "°Ca(d,p)"'Ca reaction data, ob-

tained simultaneously with the ^CaCdjp) data, were compared

with DWBA predictions using several optical model parameter sets.

The present study was designed to improve the fits to the pure

p., ._ and p1 ._ transition data compared with those obtained in

previous work by Haeberli et al.l 3) and Seth et al. l u).

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The parameter sets investigated are listed in table 2.

The deuteron parameters of set A are those obtained by Lohr and

Haeberli15), but with the real well depth increased from 105

MeV to 108 MeV. This change improved the fit to the P3/2 anc*

pl/2 a n aly zi n9 power data but had little effect on the fit to

the elastic scattering data of Schwandt and Haeberli11). Similar

small variations of the imaginary and spin-orbit potentials

performed independently in both the deuteron and proton channel

produced no appreciable improvement in the fit to the reaction

data. The proton potentials of set A are based on a fit• •

to differential cross section and polarization data for elastic

scattering of 17.5 to 21.7 MeV protons in l|0Ca by Dicello et

a!..",.

As table 2 indicates, calculations using set A include

finite range (FR) and nonlocality (NL) corrections in all

channels. The effects of these corrections for the different

transitions are shown in fig. 2. It is seen that the introduc-

tion of NL in the entrance and exit channels leads to the most

significant improvement of the fits to the data. While the FR

and bound state NL corrections produce little change in the

shaps of the cross sections and the analyzing powers, they

both contribute to the absolute value of the cross section.

The FR correction produces a decrease of 17% for I = 3 while

I =1 remains unchanged. The NL correction in the bound state

leads to an increase of the calculated cross section of about

20%, while inclusion of NL in the incident and exit channels

decreases the peak cross section by about 20%. .

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Set B and set C are the potentials used by Hansen et al.5)

in the analysis of the angular distributions in the 41Ca(d,p)

reaction. The deuteron parameters of set B were obtained by

Schwand-t and Haeberli11) by fitting elastic scattering and

analyzing power data on ''"Ca at different energies while those

of the protons are the modified Becchetti and Greenlees17) set.

of ref. l ^ ) . Set C is from ref. 18) and is close to the system-

atic average potentials for the Ca region by Perey 1 9). The

procedure employed with set B is similar to that used with set

A except that set B omits NL corrections in the bound state.

For set C the calculations are performed in zero range and local

approximations.

The results of the three different sets are compared in

fig. 3. Set A obviously provides a better fit to both differen-

tial cross section and analyzing power data for the p, ,_ and pif £.

transfers than do sets B and C. Although the fit to the ampli-

tude of the analyzing power data for p, >2 transfer is not good

with any of the parameter sets tried, set A gives a much better

representation of the data between 30° and 60° than

do the other two sets. The difference in the proton potential

produces the major improvement between sets A and B. A similar

analysis of inelastic scattering20) on ^ C a led to a similar

preference for proton parameters of set A.

The differential cross section cannot discriminate between

the two j-values for a given £-value. The j-value, however,

can be obtained from the measured analyzing power. The analysis

employed for mixed £,j transfer is based on the results of

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Satchler for the cross section and the vector analyzing power21)

The cross section is given by

(2J +1) o D W U C K

(1)

where J is the final state spin and S^. is the spectroscopic

factor. In the present analysis of positive parity states,

only the two £-values, Z =1 and 3, contribute to the cross

section.

The analogous expression for the analyzing power follows

from the result that the cross section for an incident polarized

beam depends linearly upon the product of the unpolarized cross

section and the vector analyzing power, so that

(2)

where T,^(0) is the analyzing power for each separate £j-value

D W U C Kand 0 £ j - o^ (8) (2j + l,.

The spectroscopic factors S. . for mixed transitions were*• J

obtained from a least squares analysis of both the angular distribu-

tion of the cross section and analyzing power data. It was not neces-

sary to assume a mixture of more than two transfer (£,j) components

for any state. If one spectroscopic factor came out negative,

or zero within statistics, then the data were reanalyzed using

the single £,j values.

The DWBA predictions were used for the pure transitions,

except for that involving p. ,_ transfer. Since the predicted

curves were not in good agreement with the data for P2/2 t r a n s f e r

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the curves used for the P-. /? ' ransition were based on the

iT*| data for the l/2~ state at 3943 keV in ^Ca. Previous

v/ork22'23) using even-A targets has shown that the analyzing

power is essentially identical for transitions of the same

j-value provided that the incident energy, the target mass

and Q-value are approximately the same.

Because of the difference in phase of the differential

cross sections for I = 1 and 3 transfer, and of the amplitude •

of the analyzing power for different j transfer, the two

independent data sets provided by the analyzing power and

the differential cross section'for each level proved to be

invaluable in determining the existence of small admixtures.

The results of the analysis are listed in table 1. A direct

comparison between the summed strengths between 1*0Ca(2,p)

and l*1Ca(cf/p) was made using the data obtained simultaneously

with the mixed t*°>i<1Ca target. The spectroscopic information

for the ilOCa(3/p) reaction for the f?/2'p3/2 a n d pl/2 t r a n s i ~

tions are listed in table 3, and the angular distributions

of the cross sections and analyzing powers, together with

the DWBA predictions, are displayed in fig. 5.

4. Discussion

4.1 J* ASSIGNMENTS

The final experimental results derived from the present

analysis are given in table 1. Although almost all of the 94

levels presented in ref. 5 were also seen in the present work

(see fig. 1) the poor statistics for the weakly excited negative

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parity states made it impossible to obtain sufficient accuracy

in the analyzing power data to allow for a determination of

j. Therefore, the negative parity state data were not sub-

jected to any detailed analysis and are omitted from table 1.

The compilation by Endt and Van der Leun21*) lists the spins

and parities of many levels in l<2Ca. Recently some additional

spin and parity assignments have been made mostly for negative

parity states on the basis of the l#3Ca(d,t), 1*1K{3He/d),

U2Ca(a,a') and '•'Cafd/p) reactions25'5). The transferred j

determined by the present v;ork sets limits on the spin of the

final states and thus provides' a check on spin assignments.

In particular, this is the case for the many 2 states excited

in the low energy region below 5 MeV with an & = 1 or a

mixture of I = 1 + 3 where the £ = 1 component is restricted

to j = 3/2. All such spin assignments were confirmed by the

present measurement. It is particularly interesting to note

the extreme sensitivity to the weak P3/2 admixture in the

1524 keV and 2752 keV states, especially at the most forward

angles. For states of unknown spin in the upper part of the

l42Ca spectrum, the present identification of the many j = 1/2

transitions have set the possible final spin values to either

3 or 4 for these states. Below we comment briefly upon a

few cases of special interest.

The 5211 key Level

This is assigned 2 from the *• °Ca (t,p) 1(2Ca reaction26).

Because we observe a pure P3/2 transition, a 2 assignment is

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possible. However, the spect>oscopic strength indicates a

2 assignment to be very unlikely. A 2 assignment for this

state would load to a (fT/oP^/?^* strength which exceeds

the average spectroscopic factor for the (f7/2P3/2' configura-

tion by 100%. Moreover, a spin value of 2 would imply that

no (fn/pPi/?'3+ strength is identified and the P3/2 transi-

tions to states of unknown spin represent far too little

strength to account for the missing 3 strength. In contrast,

a very reasonable distribution of spectroscopic strength is

achieved for the Z-i/jP-*/? roultiplet if a 3 assignment is

made. It is noteworthy that this level was rather weakly

excited in the (t,p) reaction and, more importantly, it does

not exhibit the characteristic deep minimum at 50° as the

strongly excited 2 states do. If the (t,p) and (d,p) reactions

are exciting the same level, the anomaly may indicate that the

(t,p) reactions proceed via a two-step process. However,

recently the 39K{a ,py) "*2Ca reaction32) has identified two

closely lying levels in this energy region at 5208 keV and

5215 keV, respectively, suggesting that the (d,p) and (t,p)

reactions may be exciting different levels.

The 6910 keV Level

The j = 1/2 transfer seen in the present data limits the

final spin to 3 or 4 . The (t,p) reaction strongly excites

a level at G920 keV and assigns it 2 . However, a comparison

of the excitation energies resulting from these two reactions

indicate that the level seen in the t,p) reaction probably

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which is weakly excited incoi ro-.p -ill;; t a : h" 69 39 keV J-i'

the (d,p) r e a c t i o n 5 ) .

The 7160 kcV Level

The (t,p) reaction again assigns 2 to a level at 7180

keV, while our data imply 3 or 4 . These are also believed

to be different levels on the basis of the same arguments as

for the preceding level.

The 7398 keV Level

The 2 level at 7385 keV, which is strongly excited in

the (t,p) reaction, is probably not the same level as the one

excited by the (d,p) reaction since it is inconsistent with

the derived spin value of 3 or 4 from our data.

4.2 NUCLEAR SPECTROSCOPY OF £)2Ca AND SUM-RULE ANALYSIS

The spectroscopic information for states in l*2Ca derived

from the present data is displayed in table 1 and fig. 6.

The u 1Ca (d,p) **2Ca results of ref. 5 are quoted in table 1

for comparison. All eight states belov; 3.7 MeV in excitation

energy, which proceed via an I = 3 transfer, were found in

the present work to be pure f7/2 transfer, as assumed in

ref. 5. It is difficult to detect weak admixtures of SL = 3

transfer in the presence of strong I = 1 transfer using

differential cross section data. Analyzing power data are

more sensitive to weak admixtures of f7/2 transfer in the

presence of strong P3/5 transfer and weak fc/2 transfer admix-

ture in the presence of strong p, .„ transfer. Reference 5

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reported i. - 3 admixture for 'light of the states between 6.1

MeV and 7.8 MeV, which are strongly excited by Z =1'transfer.

Our analyzing power data show that there is a detectable

admixture of I = 3 transfer for only one of these eight states.

This one state at 7.024 MeV proceeds by fc >-, transfer in the

presence of a strong P 1 / 2 transfer. Our data thus suggest

that; the main fragments of the f7 ,? strength are localized

in the energy region below 3.7 MeV, while only one weak frag-

went of the fr/2 transfer strength is seen below 7.8 MeV.

This Is sonewhat in contradiction with the conclusions of

ref. 5.

The I = 1 strength is distributed over a large number of

s'cates in the energy region between 1.5 and 7.8 MeV excitation.

Eighteen transitions were found to be pure P3/2 transfer and

twelve to be pure p. ,_. Mixing of P-,/2 an<^ 1/2 t r a n s f e r w a s

observed for only two rather weakly excited states. The

pronounced j sensitivity of the analyzing power for £ = 1

transfer allows for detection of admixtures as small as 10-15%

for the weaker of the two I = 1 transfer strengths. The

almost total absence of P3y2 an<^ Pl/2 mi-x:*-n9 is surprising

considering the fact that the H = 1 strength is fractionated

over an energy range of 6-7 MeV. However, about 90% of the

p, ,_ strength is observed in the energy region 4.5 -6.5 MeV,

while the Pi/2 strength occurs between 6.6 and 7.8 MeV.

The sum of the spectroscopic strength over all states

of the same spin, i.e.,£ (2J +1)S. ., and the ratio of this£j

summed strength to the simplest possible shell model value;

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that is, assuming a shell closure at l<0Ca, are listed in

table 3 for the "^Ca (d,p)4 *Ca reaction and table 4 for the

k!Ca(d,p)U2Ca reaction. The spectroscopic strength distribu-

tion for the (^T/OPT/P^ multiplet is based on an assumed spin

value of 3+ for the 5211 keV state in U2Ca. The sum of all

spectroscopic strengths leading to l*zCa are 63%, 70% and 62%

of the shell model value for f 7/ 2' P3/2 a n d pl/2 t r a n s f e r '

respectively. The corresponding values for transfer to '•'ca

are 71%, 78% and 67% for ' P3/2 l/2 transfer, respec-

tively. Moreover, the summed spectroscopic strength for

transfer to each spin of both the (f7 ,_) 2 and ^-1/2^2/2^

multiplets in 42Ca are within 10% of the same fraction of the

shell model value. Absolute spectroscopic factors derived

from DW analyses of single-nucleon transfer data are well

known to be uncertain to at least ±30%/ whereas relative

spectroscopic factors are considered to be appreciably more

reliable. The remarkable constancy of the ratio of the

spectroscopic strength to shell model estimates for transfer

to both "^Ca and 'tZCa is strong evidence that the major com-

ponents of the spectroscopic strength for these orbitals has

been identified.

A renormalization of the spectroscopic strengths by a

factor of (1/0.70) would bring the spectroscopic strengths

listed in tables 3 and 4 into very good agreement with the

simple shell model values. The summed spcctroscopic strength

for a given j transfer directly determines the number of

neutron holes in the j orbit of the target. The ground states

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ol* both l|(1Ca and '' ' Ca h.tve been shown27) to require about

104 admixture of (2s-ld) dorc-oxcitcd configurations in order

to explain inelastic proton20) and alpha scattering28), the

weakness for I «* 1 pickup29) and £ = 0 and I = 2 stripping 5 ) on

'''Ca, £ = 3 neutron pickup29) to the ground and first excited

0 states to l<0Ca and the magnetic moment of the '''Ca ground

state31)* The above renormalization factor results in orbit

occupancies consistent with a 10% excited-core component. The

coexistence model2) successfully reproduces the electromagnetic

properties of the low-lying states in lt2Ca. Spectroscopic

factors for f7/2 transfer wereicalculated using the coexistence

model wave functions2'27) in g2Ca derived from the E2 properties

and the '''ca ground state wave function deduced above neglecting

the 10% core-excited component. These calculated

spectroscopic factors are compared with the renormalized

experimental values in table 5. The present transfer data

probes the (fp)z part of the coexistence model wave functions

whereas the E2 properties are sensitive to the core-excited

components. The excellent agreement shown in table 5 is strong

support for a coexistence model description of the structure of

these states. Two solutions were obtained in ref. 2 for the

wave functions of the 6 states because only the lowest 6

state was known. Recently the second 6 level was identified

at 4.715 MeV using the 39K (a,pY) <t2Ca reaction37). The 1« yel

energies and spcctroscopic factors both support the coexistence

model solution having almost no mixing of the (fp)2 and core-

excited 6 states. The other solution having slightly more

mixing is quoted in refs. 2 and 27. All this evidence strongly

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implies that the above ronomviiization of the spectroscopic

strength is required which, in turn, provides additional

evidence that the major components of the f7,_,p-»_ and p, /,

transfer strength have been located for the (5,p) reaction

on both "°Ca and ulCa.

It is interesting to ascertain to what extent the p, ,_

and P-i /? transfer strength leading to lt2Ca can be reproduced

within the (fp)2 shell model. The (fp)2 shell model calcu-

lations were performed using the Rochester-Oak Ridge shell

model code33) with two-body matrix elements of Kuo and Brown31*)

as modified by McGrory35) to better fit the (f7 , _ ) n spectra.

The P,/2 and p, ,~ spectroscopic strength calculated using these

wave functions are compared with the data in fig. 7. Clearly

the (fp)2 shell model is unable to reproduce the extensive

fractionation of the P-,/2 an<^ pi /? strengths. For example,

the 4 member of the (f.,,p. ,,) configuration is distributed

with significant strength over four states, whereas the model

predicts more than 90% of the strength in one level. The

situation is similar for the p, ,- strength which is spread

rather evenly over more than ten states, whereas theory again

predicts the main strength in one level of each spin. The

discrepancy between the pure (fp)2 calculation and the results

for states excited by f7/2 transfer, as listed in table 5, and

the states excited by P3/2 a n^ PI/T transfer clearly demon-

strates the need for a larger configuration space.

4.3 EFFECTIVE TWO-PARTICLE MATRIX ELEMENTS IN i*2Ca

The energy centroids, e(JiJ2J), for the different spin

members of the (f?/2)2 , (f 7 / 2p 3 / 2, a n d ( f ^ ^ t w o _ p a r t i c l e

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multiplets can be obtained frc in the f?/2, P3/2 a n d P-wo transfer

strengths if it is assumed that all the appropriate transfer

strength has been located. The energy centroids e(f.7/ojj)

are given by the relation

J(2J+l)Si(J)ei(J)e(f7/2j,j) = £

where (2J+1)S.(J) and e.(J) are the spectroscopic strength and

excitation energy of the i state of spin J in "*2Ca, which is

excited by j transfer. The experimental energy centroids for

the individual spin members of each two-particle multiplet, in

addition to the average energy.obtained by summing the spectro-

scopic strength over all J values in a multiplet, are presented

in table 6. The present (f-,/•)) 2 energy centroids are in good

agreement with the results of ref. 5 as expected in view of the

fact that the £ = 3 transfer assumed to be f7/-, transfer in ref.

5 was confirmed to be correct by the present work.

Effective T = l two-body matrix element E(jiJ2J) can be

derived by taking the energy centroids with respect to the refer-

ence energy, E D, at which the multiplet would occur if there

was no residual two-body interaction. The reference energy

En(f_,.2) is given by the ground state binding energies.

E R(f ? / 22) = B('t2Ca) +B('*0Ca) -2B(1(1Ca) = 3.109 MeV.

The energy centroids of the p, ,., and P1/2 si n9^ e particle

configurations in 41Ca obtained using the *• °Ca (d,p)'' !Ca reac-

tion22) , were used to determine reference energies of 5291

keV and 7174 keV for the {£7/2^1/2* a n d ^f7/2Pl/2^ c o n f i 9 u ~

rations, respectively. The effective two-body matrix

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elements derived from the energy centroids and reference

energies are listed in column 5 of table 6.

The data suggest that the major fragments cf the (f_ , _ ) 2

and(f_,_p) multiplets have been located. However, the

observed transfer strength to states of unknown spin and the

possible existence of unobserved minor fragments at high

excitation energy both lead to uncertainties in the extracted

energy centroids and corresponding two-body matrix elements.

About 10% of the P->/? transfer strength leads to states between

6.3 MeV and 7.1 MeV for which .the spin assignments are unknown.

This unassigned strength produces the largest uncertainty in the

extracted (f7/2p3/2' m a t r i x elements. One plausible distribution

of this unassigned strength would be to assign 3 + to the 6.82

MeV state and to distribute the remaining 60% of the unassigned

strength equally among the other spin values. This would result

in a summed strength of 0.7 0 of the shell model value for each

spin and in values of E(f7 ,,,p, ,^) which are 0.35, 0.40, 0.13

and 0.06 MeV higher than quoted for J = 2, 3, 4 and 5, respectively.

The possible existence of minor fragments of unobserved

strength at high excitation energies was estimated by calcu-

lating the spreading of the strength distribution due to the

residual two-body interaction. The Kuo-Brown34) matrix element

as modified by McGrory35) were used in the (fp)2 shell model

space to calculate the theoretical distribution of spectro-

scopic strength. This calculation indicates that the strength

lost at high energy (above 7.9 MeV) is extremely small (<3%)•

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The extracted two-body matrix elements corrected for omission

of this high-lying strength arc listed in column 6 of table 6.

This correction is insignificant for all except the 0 centroid.

Since the experimental and Kuo-Brown-McGrory matrix elements

are very similar, it would appear that this estimate of the

spreading of the strength due to the residual interaction

within the (fp) space is reasonable. The major fractionation

is due to mixing with excited-core configurations. However,

the interaction matrix elements with the core-excited configura-

tion does not appear to be large enough to push a significant

fraction of the two-particle configurations beyond 7.9 MeV in

excitation energy. The narrow width of the P-,/2 s t r e n9th,

together with the absence of p^ ,_ strength above 7 MeV, both

suggest that the spreading due to the core-excited configura-

tions will not push much two-particle strength out of the energy

region studied.

The two-body matrix element given in column 6 of table €

clearly must represent lower limits since unobserved higher

lying strength would raise these energies. The individual

spin (f_/_)2 two-body matrix elements and the averages of

the <f7/2P3/2^

a n d ^f7/2pl/2^ niultiplets are probably accurate

to ~<0.1 MeV, whereas the individual spin values of the ^-1/2

multiplet could be up to 0.4 MeV higher when the unassigned

p., ,_ transfer strength is included.

Column 7 in table 6 lists the renormalized (f_ ,_p) matrix

elements derived from the Hamada-Johnston nucleon-nucleon

potential by Kuo and Brown31*). The (f.,^)2 matrix elements

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result from a least squares lit by McGrory35) to the excitation

energies of 29 states and seven binding energies for nuclei

with 42 < A < 44.

The excellent agreement between the (f_ - _ ) 2 matrix

elements derived from the present stripping data and the

previous fit to level spectra implies that use of our effective

(f^y_) 2 two-body matrix elements in shell model calculations

will reproduce those spectral properties used by McGrory for

nuclei with 42 < A < 44.

The overall agreement between our experimental two-body

matrix elements for the (f7 ,.p. ,_) and (f?/2Pi/2^ multiplets

and the predictions of Kuo and Brown is good. It is worth

noting, however, that the average contributions to the energy

of the two-body interaction for the (f7/2P3/2^ a n d ^7/2Pl/2^

configurations are measured to be slightly repulsive, whereas

Kuo and Brown34) predict a small attractive monopole contribu-

tion. The Kuo-Brown prediction for the (ld5/2^si/2^ two-body

matrix elements also are about 0.5 MeV more attractive than

observed experimentally36).

SUMMARY

Angular distributions of the cross section and the vector

analyzing power have been measured for the lf °Ca (3,p) 4 !Ca and

4 afcLp) 1<2Ca reactions using 11 MeV deuterons. The vector '

analyzing power data have been used with DWBA theory to determine

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the total angular momentum j of the captured neutron for 42

positive parity levels in 1|2Ca. Spectroscopic strengths were

extracted separately for each of the allowed j-values contri-

buting to the cross section to each state resulting in identi-

fication of the f7/2' P-i/p an& Pi/T transfer strength distri-

butions. The main constituents of the f7/2 strength are found

to be below 4 MeV in excitation energy, whereas no significant

fs/2 strength is identified below 7.8 MeV. An almost total

absence of P-,/? and p. .. admixture is observed. Of 32 states

populated by pure 1 = 1 transitions,only two rather weakly

excited states consist of a mixture of p, ,. and p, ,_. Shell

model calculations in the (fp)2 space predict the observed weak

mixing of the (fT/oPi/?) a n d ^7/2^1/2^ multiplets, but they

cannot reproduce the extensive fractionation of P,/2 ar*d Pi/->

transfer strength observed.

The summed f7/-ji P-w? an& Pi/-> spectroscopic strengths

in **2Ca are found to represent the same fraction of the shell

model limit as are obtained for the same orbitals in the

simultaneous analysis of the *• °Ca (d,p) ** *Ca reaction. Moreover,

the same characteristic feature is obtained for each spin member

of the (£-]/2^2 an<^ ^7/2^3/2^ multiplets. These results have

been used as a criterion for showing that the major components

of the spectroscopic strengths for these orbitals have been

identified. A renormalization of all the spectroscopic strengths

by a constant factor produces results for both the t*°Ca (S,p) *• 1Ca

and ^ C a (cl,p) "* 2Ca reactions in excellent agreement with the cp-

existence model wave functions for the ground state of ^ C a and

low-lying states in 'tZCa deduced from electromagnetic properties,

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inelastic scattering and sinqLe-nucleon transfer reactions on

^Ca. All these data are consistent with an admixture of

core-excited configurations of about 10% in the ground state of "tlCe

The effective ( f . ^ ) 2 , (f7/2P3/2

) a n d f7/2pl/2 t w ° - P a r t i c l e

matrix elements were compared with the modified Kuo-Brown

matrix elements of McGrory. They agree to within 0.4 MeV, or

better. However, the average energy contribution of the two-body

interaction for the f7/2P3/2 a n d f7/2pl/2 c o n f i 9 u r a t i o n s a r e

measured to be slightly repulsive, whereas Kuo-Brown predict

a small attractive monopole contribution.

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F i g u r e C a p t i o n s .

F i g . 1 P r o t o n s p e c t r a a t 10 l a b o r a t o r y a n g l e f r o m s p i n - u p

a n d s p i n - d o w n d e u t e r o n b e a m s a r e c o m p a r e d to i n d i c a t e

t h e d i f f e r e n t y i e l d s . T h e g r o u p n u m b e r s r e f e r t o

t a b l e 1 .

F i g . 2 E x a m p l e s o f e x p e r i m e n t a l a n g u l a r d i s t r i b u t i o n s

for t h e l l l C a ( d \ p ) " 2 C a r e a c t i o n o f t h e

c r o s s s e c t i o n a n d v e c t o r a n a l y z i n g p o w e r w i t h D W D A

p r e d i c t i o n s f o r p u r e i j - t r a n s i t i o n s u s i n g s e t A .

T h e e f f e c t s o f i n c l u d i n g t h e c o r r e c t i o n s f o r f i n i t e

r a n g e ( F R ) a n d n o n - l o c a l i t y ( N L ) o f t h e d e u t e r o n ,

p r o t o n a n d n e u t r o n p o t e n t i a l s a r e c o m p a r e d to t h e z e r o -

r a n g e ( Z R ) a p p r o x i m a t i o n w i t h l o c a l ( L ) o p t i c a l p o t e n -

t i a l s . T h e F R / L B c u r v e s i n c l u d e n o n - l o c a l i t y in t h e

d e u t e r o n a n d p r o t o n c h a n n e l s o n l y . T h e n o r m a l i z a t i o n

o f t h e F R / N L c u r v e s c o r r e s p o n d s to t h e e x p e r i m e n t a l

s p e c t r o s c o p i c s t r e n g t h s o f t a b l e 1. T h e o t h e r D W B A

c u r v e s a r e n o r m a l i z e d t o t h e F R / N L c u r v e s a t

F i g . 3 D W B A f i t s to t h e a n g u l a r d i s t r i b u t i o n o f t h e c r o s s

s e c t i o n a n d t h e v e c t o r a n a l y z i n g p o w e r d a t a f o r p u r e4 2

£ j - t r a n s i t i o n in Ca a r e c o m p a r e d f o r t h r e e d i f f e -

r e n t o p t i c a l m o d e l p a r a m e t e r s e t s . T h e s e t s a r e g i v e n

in t a b l e 2 .

F i g . 4 a , b , c , d, e , f. E x p e r i m e n t a l a n g u l a r d i s t r i b u t i o n

o f t h e c r o s s s e c t i o n a n d v e c t o r a n a l y z i n g p o w e r a l o n g

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w i t h D W B A p r e d i c t i o n s i n t h e c . m . s y s t e m f o r4 1 ->• 4 2

t h e C a ( d , p ) C a r e a c t i o n . T h e s o l i d l i n e s a r e

t h e D W B A r e s u l t s w i t h p a r a m e t e r s e t A . T h e d a s h e d

l i n e s a r e b a s e d o n u s i n g t h e e x p e r i m e n t a l d a t a o f

t h e 3 9 4 3 k e V 1 / 2 " s t a t e in 4 1 C a t o r e p r e s e n t t h e

p u r e iT-11 c u r v e s . T h e n o r m a l i z a t i o n o f t h e D W B A

c u r v e s to t h e e x p e r i m e n t a l c r o s s s e c t i o n c o r r e s p o n d s

to t h e s p e c t r o s c o p i c s t r e n g t h s o f t a b l e 1 .

F i g . 5 E x p e r i m e n t a l a n g u l a ' r d i s t r i b u t i o n o f t h e c r o s s s e c t i o n *

a n d v e c t o r a n a l y z i n g p o w e r a n d D W B A p r e d i c t i o n s f o r

4 0 -* 41t r a n s i t i o n s o b s e r v e d in t h e C a ( d , p ) C a r e a c t i o n .

T h e s o l i d l i n e s a r e t h e D W B A r e s u l t s w i t h p a r a m e t e r s e t

A . T h e n o r m a l i z a t i o n o f t h e D W B A c u r v e s t o t h e

e x p e r i m e n t a l c r o s s s e c t i o n c o r r e s p o n d s t o t h e s p e c t r o -

s c o p i c s t r e n g t h s o f t a b l e 3 .

F i g . 6 T h e e n e r g y d i s t r i b u t i o n s o f t h e s p e c t r o s c o p i c s t r e n g t h4 ~*

in ''Ca f o r t h e d i f f e r e n t f p o r b i t a l s o b s e r v e d in

t h e p r e s e n t e x p e r i m e n t .

F i g . 7 T h e e x p e r i m e n t a l p , , 2 anc' P i / 2 s t r e n g t h d i s t r i -

b u t i o n s a r e c o m p a r e d w i t h t h e p r e d i c t i o n s o f a p u r e

( f p ) s h e l l m o d e l c a l c u l a t i o n . T h e e x p e r i m e n t a l

s t r e n g t h s a r e r e n o r m a l i z e d b y 1 / 0 . 7 0 .

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b) From present j-value.

e) From ref. 5.

c) From ref. 24. d) From present work; see text.

f) Observed at the three most forward angles only whichindicate pure Pi/? transfer.

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TABLE 2

Optical model parameters. '

Set Particle W W' V s - ° rso aso NL FR

d

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d

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n

d

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62.2-0.664E 1.21 0.66

b) 1.20 0.65

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1.496 0.63

1.25 i.47

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32.0 1.20 0.65

1.20 0.65 25

0.62

0. 52

All lengths in fm and all potential energies in MeV . *) The optical model potential was of

the form V(r) = VC0(jl (r) - V [ 1 + exp( (r-r A1 / 3 )/a) ] " ] - i W[l + exp x 1 ] " 1 + i W d/dx'[l+exp x 1 ] " 1

+ Vso(l/r) d/dr[l + exp((r - r ^ A 1 / 3 ) / a S Q ] " ' • t • t , where x = (r - r^ A 1 / 3)/a'.

b) Adjusted to give a binding energy of Q + 2.23 MeV .

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TABLE 4

The summed fp strength for the 1*1Ca(d,p) l*zCa reaction

Configu-ration

( f 7 / 2 ) 2

f7/2 P3/2

J

0+

2+

4 +

6 +

ALL

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4 +

5+

Unknown

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(2JB + 1)S

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6.27

10.61

17.1

35.20

2.96

3.75

5.93

6.88

2.91

22.46

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TABLE 5

Comparison of the experimental values and the coexistence model

predictions for the I = 3 spectroscopic factors to the low-lying

states seen in the *• *Ca (d,p) 4 2Ca reaction.

Coexistence Modela) Present Experiment

1.20

0.44

0.69

0.94

1.37 .

0.33

1.76

<0.01

1.3

0.3

0.77

0.90

1.31

0.37

1.89

<0.07

Spectroscopic factors calculated using the coexistence model

wave functions of ref. 2 in addition to assuming that the ground

state of ^ C a is 90% f^/o neutron coupled to a closed tf0Ca core.

Spectroscopic factors assuming renormalization factors of 1/0.70.

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TAHLE 6

The effective two-particle matrix elements in

Config-

uration

(f7/2>

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J*

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4+

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b)

Ref. 34

Ref. 35

Corrected for the strength, predicted by the (fp)^ shell modelcalculations, to lie above 7.9 MeV in excitation energy and hencewould be missed by the present measurement

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P A P E R V

A STUDY OF THE TWO-PARTICLE STATES

42 4 1 3 42IN Sc FROM THE Ca( He,d) Sc REACTION

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A STUDY OF THK TWO- PARTICLE STATES IN

U2Sc FHOM THE *• JCa { 3IIe ,d) ** 2Sc REACTION

P.B. VOLD*

Institute of Physics, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

and

D. CLINE and M.J.A. de VOIGT*

Nuclear Structure Research Laboratory''"''University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y., U.S.A.

and

OLE HANSENt+t and 0. NATHAN

The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen2100 Copenhagen 0, Denmark

Abstract: Energy levels in U2Sc have been studied using the

proton capture reaction "* *Ca (3He,d) "• 2Sc at a bombarding

energy of 20 MeV. A total of 89 levels were identified

below 6 MeV. Angular distributions have been measured and

used together with DWBA calculations to determine & values

2

and spectroscopic strengths. The T=l states of the (^7/0'

and (f_/2P-J/->) configurations were identified from a com-

parison of spectroscopic factors obtained using the ** *Ca (3EIe,d)4 1 "*•

and Ca(d,p) reaction. Deexcitation gamma rays were observed

in coincidence with the emitted deuterons to determine the

individual spectroscopic strengths for the 0.62 MeV 1+, 7 +

unresolved doublet.

* Present address: K.V.I., University of Groningen, TheNetherlands.

t Supported in part by Norges Almenvitenskapelige Forskningsrfid.ft Supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation

ttt Supported by Statens Naturvitenskabelige ForskningsrSd, Denmark

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The major components of the f7/2 a n^ ^-ne T =^ P a r t °f the P3/5

strength have been identified and were used as a criterion to

renormalize the strengths by 1/0.75 to bring the summed strengths

into agreement with the shell model predictions. Effective2

(f_ ,„) and (f_ /pP-, /•p)rp=i matrix elements have been determined

and compared to the corresponding matrix elements of Sc and

42Ca. The three sets agreed to within a few hundred keV.

E NUCLEAR REACTIONS 4 0 ' 41Ca (3He ,d) , 41Ca ( 3He ,dr ,

E=20 MeV; measured ad (E ,0), deduced levels, I,

•n,J,T, spectroscopic factors. Enriched targets.

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1. Introduction

The existence of deformed multi-particle, multi-hole

configurations additional to the sequence of (f_,_)2 two -

particle shell model states in the low energy spectrum of

mass-42 nuclei is a well known phenomenon. ' ' ). In "42Sc,

about twenty-five levels are observed below 3 MeV excitation ' )

which far exceeds the eight levels expected from the (£7/3)2

configuration. This multitude of states indicates the impor-

tance of core-excited configurations which leads to consider-

able fractionation of the two-particle configurations. Effec-

tive two-body matrix elements of the residual two-body part

of the nuclear Hamiltonian for the (lf-2p) shell can be

determined directly from the strength distribution of the

two-particle configurations in **2Sc. One-nucleon transfer

reaction data provide the only viable method for locating the

fractionated two-particle strength in mass-42 nuclei.

The recent production of a ^Ca target made possible

studies of the two-particle states in mass-4 2 nuclei. The

11 !Ca (d,p) "*2Ca reaction using unpolarized ' ) and polarized

8 9

deuterons ' ) has been reported previously and the T=l effec-

tive two-body matrix elements were determined. The present

paper reports on the l( JCa (3He,d) k 2Sc reaction. This reaction

should strongly excite both the T=0 and T=l members of the

low-lying (f7 ,2)2conf iguration in addition to the higher lying

(f7/2p3/2)' (f7/2pl/2* a n d (f7/2f5/2) two-particle configura-

tions. The *• 1Ca (3He,d) !<2Sc reaction is expected to weakly

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excice core-excited configurations in t>2Sc because the ground

.state of " tfa has been shown to have at most about a 10% ad-

9 10mixture of excited core configurations ' ).

The experimental procedure and results for the ^ C a

(3He,d)i'2Sc reaction are discussed in section 2. In addition

this section contains a description of the *• *Ca (3He,dY)'*2Sc

coincidence experiment which was performed to resolve the

transfer strength of the 1+ state at 611 keV from the strongly

excited 7 + state at 618 keV observed as a doublet in (3He,d).

The DWBA analysis of all these data is discussed in Sect. 3.

The J11 and T values for the 1(2Sc states derived from a com-

parison of the present data with the ** !Ca (d, p) k2Ca. results

and other data are given in Sect. 4. The spectroscopic in-

formation extracted from the present results and their impli-

cations regarding the ground state properties of 1<1Ca are

presented in Sect. 5. The energy centroids of the (f 7/ 2)2 a n d

^7/2^3/2^ configurations are discussed in Sect. 6, and the

extracted effective two-particle matrix elements are compared

with the corresponding data from i'8Sc and "2Ca. A comparison

with the coexistence model of Flowers and Skouras ) is

presented in Sect. 7.

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2. Experimental Method

2.1 The ** JCa(3He,d)M2Sc reaction

The target consisted of 81.8% hiCa and 18.1% l>0Ca and

had a thickness of about 25 pg/cm2. It was vacuum evaporated

on to a 30 pg/cm2 carbon backing. Details are given in Ref.7.

In addition, a '•Oca target was used in order to facilitate the

identification of transitions to single particle states in

^ S c , excited by reactions on the '•''Ca contamination in the

^ C a target.

The (3He,d) data were obtained using a 20 MeV 3He beam

from the Rochester MP tandem accelerator. The outgoing

deuterons were analyzed in a split-pole magnetic spectrometer

and detected using Kodak NTB, 50 pm photographic emulsions

placed along the focal plane. Suitable Al foils were placed

in front of the emulsions to stop heavier particles scattered

from the target.

Resulting spectra of hzSc were measured in steps of

2.5° or 5 at laboratory angles from 5 to 55 with an energy

resolution of 17 keV. The measurements at 12.5 , 22.5 , 32.5

and 40 were made with a smaller solid angle in order to obtain

better resolution, i.e. 10 keV. Control runs on the l|0Ca target

were performed from 10° to 50 in 10 steps.

The absolute cross sections were obtained by observing

elastic scattering yields using position sensitive detectors

in the focal plane of the magnetic spectrometer and by normal-

izing to optical model predictions. The absolute cross section

scale is believed to be accurate to within 15%.

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The ratio between " °Ca( 3He,d) and ^Ca^Hejd) yields

was obtained in two ways: By relative measurements using sep-

arate targets of the two isotopes, as described above, and by

simultaneous observation of deuteron groups originating from the

mixture of Ca and Ca in the enriched Ca target. The two

data sets agreed to within the experimental uncertainties and

determined the Ca( He,d) and Ca( He, d) cross section ratios

to better than ± 10%.

41 3 42A deuteron spectrum from the Ca( He,d) Sc reaction at

12.5° is presented in fig. 1. A total of 89 deuteron groups

42

corresponding to levels in Sc was observed below an excita-

tion energy of 6 MeV. In table 1, the excitation energies

corresponding toLthe groups shown in figure 1 are given. The

excitation energies reported are accurate to within 5 keV and

they are in excellent agreement with the accurate energies

obtained from y-decay studies given in column 2 of table 1.

2.2 The 41Ca(3He,dY) 2Sc Coincidence Experiment

The transfer strength leading to the 611 keV 1 state was

buried under the strongly excited 618 keV 7 + group in the

41Ca(3He,d) Sc reaction data. Since the 7 state is isomeric

it was possible to determine the transfer strength to the 1 +

member of this unresolved doublet by observing the ejectile in

coincidence with the gamma ray de-exciting the 1 + state.

7 41

The 25Mgm/cm Ca target described earlier was bom-

barded with 20 MeV He ions and the deuterons scattered at 8=15°

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were detected by position sensitive silicon detectors placed in

the focal plane of the split-pole magnetic spectrometer. The

gamma rays were detected by a 7.6 x 7.6 cm Nal scintillator loc-

cate'd at 9=-80° in the scattering plane and 2 cm from the target.

Both particle singles and coincidence spectra were recorded event

by event on magnetic tape and analyzed off line. Gamma ray spectra

were projected from the coincidence data with windows set on the

time, particle energy and position signals corresponding to the

1 + (611 keV), the 3 + + 5 + (1491 + 1511 keV) and the 2 + (1586 keV)

groups. The spectra were corrected for random coincidences. The

time to random ratio was better than 10 to 1. The gamma spectra

were corrected for summing effects in the Nal detector.

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DWBA .i

3.1 The l|1Ca(3He,d)l|ISc Reaction Data

The distorted wave (DWBA) computer code DWUCK by

P.D. Kunz was employed to calculate the differential cross-

sections. The calculations were made using the zero range

(ZR) and local (L) approximations. The optical model para-

meters used in the present analysis are given in table 2; they

are average parameters, fitted to elastic scattering for the

fy/2 s n e 1 1 region * *°) . The spectroscopic strengths G(JA+j-»-J)

listed in table 1 and 3 for the M1Ca(3He,d) and l»0Ca(3He#d)

data respectively, were extracted from the data by normalizing

the DWBA cross section to the experimental cross section via

the relation

exp

.(do/dn)DWUCK (1)

A1

where G(JA+j->-J) is related to the spectroscopic factor given

ir; an isospin formalism by

(2)

C2 is the isospin Clebsch-Gordan coefficient, j and t designate

the transferred spin and isospin, J., T. and J,T are the spin,

isospin for the target and final nucleus respectively. Since

T. = 1/2 and Tft = 1/2 we populate both T = 0 and T =1 states

in l|ZSc. For either choice, C2= 1/2, which merely expresses

equal probabilities that an excited nuclcon in the final state

is a neutron or a proton.

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DWBA calculations which included both non-locality (NL)

in the incident and exit channels and finite range (FR) cor-

rections were also performed to check the sensitivity of the

cross sections to these effects. The shape of the angular

distribution was found to be essentially unchanged whereas

the magnitude increased by 20% and 30% for £=1 and i=3, respec-

tively. This increase is similar to the results of other work

on the 3He,d) and (d,3He) reactions 1 4 # 1 5 ) in the fp-shell.

The (ZR-L) procedure of refs. 14, 15) yielded spectroscopic

factors consistent with that expected from the shell model,

while the more complete (FR-NL) calculation underestimated

the spectroscopic factors by about 40%. T*hese results indicate

that the uncertainty associated with absolute spectroscopic

factors derived from the (3He,d) reaction, using the factor

4.42 in Eq. 2, may be as high as + 40%, whereas relative spec-

troscopic factors are considered to be appreciably more reliable

(see Sect. 5 for a further discussion).

The ground state spin of J = 7/2 implies that a transition

may proceed with mixed 2-values? for example £=1+3 are allowed

for final state spins of 2 + £ j" - 5+. In order to obtain

reliable spectroscopic strengths for each of the two i-values

contributing to the cross section in a mixed trancition, it is

necessary that the DWBA curves provide good fits for transitions

involving a single Jl-value. Although the overall quality of the fit to

pure £=3 and pure 1=1 transitions are both very good (see figs. 2

and 3), the fit to the forward angle data for a pure 1=3 transition

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such as the 6 *" state at 324'3 koV, allows up to a 2% admix-

ture of a fictitious 1. = 1 transfer whereas small deficiencies

for the I= 1 fit in the 25 - 35° region lead invariably to

a significant fictitious £=3 contribution. For example,

the best fit to the data for the 3/2" state at 1720 !;eV in

^ S c , which must be pure K. = 1 transfer, is obtained with a

fictitious 18% admixture of £ = 3 transfer. It is concluded

from this that an St. = 3 admixture smaller than 25% of the

total strength in a predominantly I = 1 distribution cannot

be determined from the present data, and thus is not quoted

in table 1. In the energy region below 4 MeV, where A =3 pre-

dominates, many transitions were observed to proceed with

i = 1+3, and the strong sensitivity to a =1+3 at small angles

made it possible to determine l =1 admixtures as small as 5%.

The spectroscopic strengths for mixed transitions were obtained

from a least square analysis of the cross section data and

the statistical uncertainty in the spectroscopic strengths

do maxis equal or less than 15% for states with -jrr ^6.1 mb/sr and

believed to be within 25% for weaker transitions.

The form factors were calculated using lf7/2 t r a n s f e r

for all 1 = 3 transitions. All I =1 form factors were assumed

to be 2p,,_ transfer. An.assumption of 2p, .„ transfer would

yield spectroscopic strengths about 10% larger. For i, - 0

and I =2 transitions, we have used 2s. ,» and Id.,/- form fac-

tors. Excited states above 4.2 MeV in excitation energy are

unbound. The spectroscopic strength for the unbound states

was obtained by keeping the proton bound by 100 keV and

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using the correct kinematics in the DWBA calculations.

A procedure using extrapolation of the DWBA curves for i, = 1

to the unbound region would have given spectroscopic strengths

15% smaller than those given in table 1 at 5 MeV excitation

increasing to 25% at 6 MeV.

The presence of 18% l*0Ca in the *4lCa target made possible a

simultaneous analysis of the f7/»2 a n d Pi/? transitions in the

lfOCa(3He,d)'*1Sc reaction allowing a direct comparison

of the relative spectroscopic strengths for these orbitals

in the two reactions. The l|OCa(3He,d)'•'Sc results are compared

with those of R. Bock et al. ) in table 3. Our results for

this spectroscopic strength are in good agreement with those

of Ref. 16). Our experimental data together with the DWBA

predictions for the l<oCa(3He,d) "* 1Sc reaction are displayed in

fig. 3.

3.2 Analysis of the " *Ca(3He,dy)"2Sc Coincidence Data

The angular correlation of the deexcitation gammas was

calculated using a version of the coupled-channel code CHUCK )

which had been modified to calculate the d-y correlation for

a 7/2" target spin. The analysis was performed using the

same DWBA procedure and parameter described earlier. Only

one gamma transition between the 0 +, 1 +, 2 +, 3 +, 5 + and 7 +

states is expected to occur with mixed multipole radiation,

that is, the 2 + -»• 1 + transition. The multipole mixing ratio

1 8from this transition has been measured ) to be 6( E2/M1) =

-0.01 + 0.06 and thus this transition was assumed to be a

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pure dipole. The y-ray correlation in the scattering plane

was calculated to be, at most, a 27% effect for the transi-

tions studied. However, the Nal detector angle and solid

angle were selected to ensure that the y~ray correlation

produced less than a IS effect.

The d-y coincidence data give relative cross sections for

exciting the 5+, 3+ and 2 states in excellent agreement with

the photographic plate data. The absolute spectroscopic

factor for the (611 keV)l+ state was obtained by normalizing

the relative d-y coincidence data to the cross sections for

the 5+, 3+ and 2+ states measured using photographic plates.

This analysis resulted in a spectroscopic factor for the

(611 keV)l+ state of C2S1+ = 0.66 + 0.07, that is, a G.^ =

0.25 ± 0.03. Thus the remaining strength measured for the

unresolved 1+ - 7+ doublet must lead to the 7+ state, i.e.

G?+ = 1.21.

4. The Jw and T assignments to 42Sc states.

The spin and isospin assignments listed in column 4

of table 1 are taken from the compilation of Endt and

1Q

Van der Leun ). The present results have made it possible

to derive many new assignments by combining them with those

of Ref. 19) and the recent spectroscopic information of the

T = l analog levels in *'2Ca as observed in the ** *Ca (d,p) **2Ca6 7 8 9reaction ' ' ' ). The adopted values are presented in column

5 of table 1. A discussion of how these assignments were

obtained is given below.

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The T = 1 states: The identification of the T =1 states is

based on a comparison of the spectroscopic factors in the

l|1Ca(3He,d) M2Sc and *• ]Ca (d*,p) u zCa reaction. The spectroscopic

factors for transitions to the T = l analogue states in It2Ca

and l|2Sc are expected to be equal since isospin is a good

quantum number. The measured spectroscopic factors for the

analogue states are compared in table 4. Very good agreement

is obtained for the low lying analogue states populated pre-

dominantly by f7/2 transfer. Only the unknown analogue of

the 3295 keV 0 + state in l'2Ca was not located, which is as

expected since the peak cross section for the '• a (3He,d)k 2Sc

reaction to this 0 + state should be only 17pb/sr. The spectro-

scopic factors to the higher lying analogue states excited

strongly by £=1 transfer also are in good agreement.

The Coulomb energy displacement energies, AE, listed

in the last column of table 4, fall into two groups, that is,

with AE - + 50 keV for the low lying states excited mainly

by 51=3 and - 50 to - 100 keV for the unbound states excited

mainly by £=1. However, the strongly excited analogue pairs,

4548 and 4448 keV and 5084 and 5020 keV have markedly different

Coulomb displacement energies for the adjacent states. The

levels at 4227 keV and 4827 keV, assumed to be analogues

of the 2 + states at 4760 keV and 4869 keV in "2Ca would give

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better agreement for the spectroscopic factors if the states

were interchanged. However, this would result in Coulomb

energy displacement energies which differ by 200 keV which

would appear to be unlikely.

The comparison made in table 4 indicates that all the

T = l analogue states in 'l2Sc with large spectroscopic factors

for {, - 1 anu 2, = 3. transfer have been located. The largest

discrepancy is for the suggested T = l analogue at 3754 keV

of the 36 50 keV state in **2Ca.

The T = 0 States

The spin of the final states for the *• ]Ca (3He ,d) 4 2Sc

reaction are restricted to j ' = 0 - 7 for i. - 3 transfer

and J71 = 2 + - 5+ for I = 1 transfer. However, i, = 3 transfer

to T = 0 states containing the (f 7/ 2)2 configuration is limited

to final state spins of Jv= 1 +, 3 +, 5 , 7 + to ensure anti-

symmetrization. The recent study of the " 1Ca (d,p) "* 2Ca

8 9reaction ' ) showed that no fj. ,~ transfer strength was observed

below 7 MeV in excitation energy and a similar situation should

occur in h2S>c. Thus strongly excited 1-3 transitions to

states below 4 MeV in excitation energy can be safely assumed

to proceed via the (f_. ?)2 configuration while weakly excited

I - 3 transfer may proceed via the deformed core-excited com-

ponents in the "^Ca ground state wave function. A core-excited

admixture in the ^Ca (g.s.) of about 10% (see Ref. 10 and dis-

cussion j p. Sect. 5) could yield an I = 3 spectroscopic strength

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of up to about 0.06. We have thus only restricted the final

state spin values to 1+, 3 +, 5+, 7 + for states with I = 3

strength larger than 0.06. It is seen from table 1 that

many.strongly excited T= 0 states below 4 MeV proceed by

I - 1+3 which implies J1T= 3 + or 5+. These results combined

with those of Ref. 19) have resulted in unique Jv = 3 + assign-

ment for the 1490, 3390 and 3930 keV states and Jr = 5 for

the 1510 and 3088 keV states.

The I» = 2 distribution observed for the 2388 keV level in

the 40Ca(a/d)'l2Sc reaction 2 0) ' limits the J* values to 1 +,

2 + or 3+. The present (3He,d) data yield 3 + or 5 +, hence

J1" = 3+ for this level. The present data indicate that a

second level must occur at 2220 keV in addition to the 1 +

level at 2223 keV because the t = 1+3 transfer in (3He,d)

implies J1T= 2 + - 5+. This is consistent with the lifetime

measurements of Roberson and Van Middelkoop ) who suggested

a second level within 5 keV of the known 1 + level.,

5. Discussion and sum rule analysis.

The spectroscopic strengths extracted from the present

data are listed in table 1 and displayed in figs. 4 and 5.

The T = l strength is compared with the l*1ea(d,p) strength in

fig. 4, while Fig. 5 displays the excitation energy distri-

bution of the T= 0 spectroscopic strength.

A striking feature of the present data is that the number

of T = 0 states in the low lying (ZJ/J)2 region exceeds the

T =1 number by about three to one; twenty six T= 0 positive

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parity states are seen below 4 MeV and 8 T=l states. However,

a major fraction of the f?/2 strength (250%) is concentrated in the

lowest level of each spin for all spin members of the multiplet for

both the T=0 and T=l states. The extensive fragmentation of the T=0

states indicates that T=0 core excited configurations produce a lar-

ger effect on the low-lying states than the T=l core excited con-

figurations,- it is also interesting to note that the f7y2

and P3/2 transfer strengths appear to mix more strongly for

T= 0 than for T = l states. This is clearly demonstrated for

each of the two strongest 3 + (1490 and 3390 keV) and 5 + (1510

and 3089 keV) transitions; . all of which receive a significant

fraction of both f~ ,_ and P3/5 strength. (See also discussion

in Sect. 7.)

The Si - 1 strength is distributed over forty three states

in the energy region between 1.5 and 6 MeV excitation; nine

of which were found to be T = l states. The recent results of

the polarized *• 2Ca (d,p) l|2Ca reaction ' ) to analogue states

shows that the T = l states are excited by P3/2 transfer below

6.5 MeV and P w 2 transfer at higher excitation energies. More-

over, almost no mixing of P3/2 and Pi/? transfer was observed1,2

in the ^Cafcijp) Ca reaction data. It is interesting to note

that the Jl= 1 transfer strength function for the T= 0 states

exhibits a rather broad minimum around 5 MeV excitation which

may indicate a similar division of the P3/5 anc* P1/2 strength.

The sum of all the proton stripping strength for a given

transferred j determines the number of proton holes in the orbit

j for the garget ground state (J ,T_) i.e.

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• > « ?i A

(3)

where TJ(J) is the number of protons in the j orbital in the

target ground state. If isospin is conserved then the sum

of the (x,d) strength to the T = T + 1/2 states determines

the number of j neutron holes in the target,

(4)

2TA

where v(j) is the number of j neutrons in the target.

Application of equation (3) to the present data implies

that there are 6*0 proton holes in the f7/2 orbital in l*1Ca(g.s.)

that is, 75% of the simple shell model sum rule limit. The

summed f7/2 transfer strength of 2.33 for all T = l states

gives a similar result for the number of neutron holes, namely

67% of the shell model value. Moreover, the summed strength

for each spin member of the (f, , , ) 2 multiplet exhibits the

same fraction of the shell model value within the experimental

uncertainties as illustrated in table 5. The (2J+1) propor-

tionality of the summed f? <» strength to each spin member of

the ( f7/ 2)

2 multiplet implies that only the f7/2 n e u t r°n

orbital is making an appreciable contribution to the ground

state properties of '''ca, as expected within the simplest

shell model description of this state. The f?/2 transfer

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strength for the l>oCa{3He,d)'''Sc reaction, also studied in

the present work, is concentrated in the ground state of

and this strength was observed to correspond to 6.4 proton

holes in the f7/2 shell , i.e. 80% of the shell model limit.

All these data for both 42Sc and '•1Sc are consistent with

the absolute (3He,d) spectroscopic factors for f--- transfer

being about 75% of the true value. As discussed in Sect. 3,

such an error in the absolute normalization

of spectroscopic strength, derived from an DWBA analysis is

not unexpected and thus a renormalization of the f_,_ strength

by 1/0.75 appears reasonable.

All the T=l states observed via 1= 1 transfer in the

present work are expected to be excited only by P3/2 transfer

as discussed earlier. The summed i. =1 transfer strength to

the T= 1 states is 79% of the sum rule limit for P3/2 transfer.

A 5122 keV T=0 state was excited in the 1*t)Ca (ot,d) l|2Sc reac-

tion. Excitation of this state by I =1 transfer would be

unresolved from transfer to the 5120 keV 3+ T= 1 level which

then could explain the large value for the summed Jl = 1 strength

to the 3+ T = 1 states. Although the ^CafcUp) results imply

that about 10% of the P3/2 strength is above the energy region

covered by the present work, a renormalization by the same

amount as indicated for the f7/2 strength would also bring

the P3/7 strength into good agreement with the shell model

prediction.

A renormalization of the spectroscopic strengths to the

shell morl«l value is only a reasonable procedure if the

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amplitudes of the core-excited components in the Ca(g.s.) are

small. As discussed previously, the results of other experiments

22, 23,on wlCa, i.e. inelastic proton''*1) and alpha scattering*""), the

weakness of H=l pickup ' ) , the f?y2 neutron pickup ' )

strength ratio of hundred to one for the ground and first

excited 0 states to "*°Ca are all consistent with admixtures

of (2s-ld) core-excited configurations of only about 10% in

the "'Cafg.s.). The smallness of the admixtures of core-excited

configurations in the M1Ca(g.s.) suggested by all these data

supports the renormalization of the spectroscopic strengths.

Similar renormalizations were also required for the ItlCa(d,p)

data6-9

It is also interesting to note that in the °Ca(a,d) Sc

reaction a second 1=6 distribution was observed for a level

at 3607 keV which could be a second 7 state. We probably

observe the same level at 3601 keV with a pure £=3 distribution

with a strength of only 2% of the 7 1 strength. If this is the

second 7 state the present ( He,d) data thus suggests that2

there is almost no mixing between the (f_ ,-) and core-excited

7 states. Moreover, the recent identification of a second

6+ state in ^Ca by the 39K(a,py) reaction26) lead to a similar+ 9 26

conclusion for the 6 states ' ) . The spectroscopic factors

of the first 6 and 7 states represent thus further evidence

for the above renormalization factor.

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The data for l-l transfer to T=0 states indicate that

the major components of the (f7/2p3/2*3+ a n d a considerable

fraction of the (f7/2p3/2*5+ c o n f ig u r a t i°ns have been identified.

The 4469 keV state is consistent with being the 4 + T=0 member

of the (f7/2P3/2^ configuration because the £<=1 transfer strength

is 89% of the shell model value for P3/5 transfer. However, at

this excitation energy an admixture of p, ,» transfer cannot be

excluded. About half of the unassigned £=1 transfer strength

could correspond to P^/2 t r a n s f e r t o T = o states. The remainder

could include some P w 2 t r a n s f e r strength since most of the p 3/ 2

transfer strength to the T=l state is already accounted for.

6. Effective two-particle matrix elements in l<2Sc.

The previous discussion suggests that all the major

,T=1 T=0components of the (f_,~) 2, (f7/2P3/2' a n d t h e

spectrum in 42Sc appear to have,been located. The energy cen-

troids, e(j,j?J), for the different spin members of the

( f 7 / ? )2 and (f7,pP^y~) two-particle multiplets can be obtained

from the f7/? and P T / 2 t r a n s ^ e r strengths if it is assumed

that all the appropriate transfer strength has been located.

The energy centroids c(j,j^JT) are given by the relation

e(j j JT) = E G. (J +j e.(JT)/ E G.(J.+j-»-J) (5)

where G.(J,+j •* J) and e.(J) are the spectroscopic strength

and excitation energy of the i state of spin J,T in " zSc

which is excited by j transfer. The experimental energy

centroids for the individual spin members of each two-particle .

multiplet, in addition to the average energy obtained by

summing the spectroscopic strength over all J values for the

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multiplct, are presented in table 6

Effective two-body matrix element E(j,j-JT) can be

derived by taking the energy centroids with respect to the

reference energy, ER{j-j_), at which the multiplet would

occur if there was no residual two-body interaction. The

reference energy ER(f7y22) ^ s given by the ground state

binding energies

B("°Ca) - - B(U1Ca) = 3.17M MeV

In order to obtain the reference ER(f7/2P3/2' ' w e usec^

B(41Sc) the binding energy of the centroid of the P3/0 t r a n s ~

fer strength in '•'Sc derived from our "*°Ca(3He,d) data,

yielding ^^}^i /2^z/l) ~ ^-964 MeV. The effective two-body matrix

elements derived from the experimental energy centroids are given

in column 5 of table 6. The corresponding l*8Sc matrix elements

C\ ft 0

anrl thn l*2C.a r^nnlts ' ' ) for the T=l matrix elements are also

presented in table 6. The effective particle-particle two-body

matrix elements for ueSc were obtained by making a hole-

particle transformation of the particle-hole matrix elements

derived from the ^Sc data 2 7' 2 8).

The "zSc and **2Ca data result in excellent agreement for2

the T=l members of the (f7/2) multiplet. The somewhat more

attractive value for the 0 state in lt2Sc is due the fact that

the third 0 state was not identified in "2Sc. The "2Ca valuematrix element should therefore be used for2

for the

mass 42 nuclei. The overall agreement between the

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matrix elements of u2Sc and lt8Sc is also satisfactory; the

differences are of 300 keV or less. However, it is noteworthy

that the T=l matrix elements of 1|2Sc are systematically for

each J-value about 300 keV more attractive than the corresponding

ll8Sc results. This small downward shift of the two body matrix

elements in mass-42 nuclei may be caused by the 10% core-

excited components in '''Cafg.s.). It is also worth noting that

the possible existence of minor fragments of the f7/2 strength

at high excitation energy which would lead to an upward shift

of the mass-42 values, was estimated in the ltlCa(d,ip) work of2

ref. 9 by calculating (fp) shell model wave functions using

the modified Kuo-Brown )matrix elements of McGrory ). The

upward shift was found to be insignificant for all except the

0+ state which was shifted by about 0.5 MeV.

As regards to the (f7/2p3/2^T=l c o nfi9 u r a t i o nr t n e "l2Sc

matrix elements are about 200 keV more repulsive than the 't2Ca

values. This difference probably reflects the fact that the

reference energy ER(f7/2P3/2^ i s a b o u t 300 keV larger in lt2Ca

than in ll2Sc, a result which is caused by different energies

for the P3y2 single particle states in ^Ca and u S c .

The (f7y2p )^+1and (f7/2P3/2)3*° matrix elements are

related to the corresponding pn matrix element by

EP ? = ^(E^?0 + E^? 1), which gives E|9 = -0.77 MeV in ^Sc.

The same matrix element has also been deduced from 50Sc )

data yielding a value of -0.57 MeV ) in good agreement with the

"2Sc results.

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The strength V of the symmetry potential V_ =V(T • t)/Asym • c\

can in the absence of pairing forces be determined directlyfrom the splitting of the e(T=TA+l/2) and e(T=TA~l/2) energy

2

centroids. However, when pairing is present as for the {£-. ,~)

configuration the isospin dependence of the two-body interaction

is slightly more complicated. From the formula of de.Shalit and

32 2Talmi ) for the average two-body energy in a j configurationof good seniority, and reduced isospin, we deduce that

V

A

- 2E(j201)

T=l 2where E J > Q = -0.26 MeV for (f7/2)

a n d i s calculated for J>0.

Together with the values of -2.89 MeV for E(f^ 2 01) and -1.51

T=0MeV for E A T T this results in a value of 80 MeV for the strength

A1JLI

of the symmetry potential. This value is close to the value of

80 and 89 MeV derived from ( He,d) experiments in the Ca-Ni

region ) and the "8Sc data but is somewhat smaller than the

value of 101 MeV obtained from neutron pick-up ) on ulCa.

7. Comparison with the Coexistence Model.

It was shown in references 7 and 9 that the spectro-

scopic factors for f7/2 transfer to the lowest 7 T=l states,

seen in the "*'ca (d,p) l(2Ca reaction, are well reproduced by the

coexistence model. The coexistence model calculation by Flowers2

and Skouras ) for T=0 states have recently been modified by

34Thomas and Skouras ). Spectroscopic factors for the low lying

T=0 states were calculated using the (fp) part of these wave-

functions assuming that the ground state of "* lCa has a structure

which is 90% of a t~. ,- neutron coupled to a closed "0Ca core.

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The core-excited components are expected to make only a

small contribution to the transfer strength for states with

large spectroscopic factors for f7y2 o r P3/2 t r a n s^ e r- T n e

calculated spectroscopic factors for the strongly excited

T=0 states are compared with the renormalized experimental values

in table 7. The coexistence model predicts that the admixture of

core-excited configurations is small for the states listed in

2table 7, i.e. they are predominately either ( 7/9 or a mixture

2of (f7/o' anc* ^7/2^3/2^ configurations. The agreement between

the coexistence model and experimental spectroscopic factors

for these low lying T=0 states is very good for the 5 and

7 states and reasonably good for the 1 and 3 states. We can

thus conclude that the coexistence model also gives a fairly

good description of the strongly excited low-lying T=0 states

in mass 42 nuclei.

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TABLE 1. Experimental results from the41 3 4?

Ca( He,d) reaction.

Group

0

12

3

45

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

141516

17

Ex<

present )

0

615

1490

1510

1585

1843

1872

1886

2185

2220

2265

2293

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2433

2452

2486

(2533)

2648

keV)

ref.

0

611.

617.

1490.

1511 .

1586.

1846

1873.

1888.

2187.

2222.

2270.

2297

2389

2455

2488.

2535

2586.

2650.

2669

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2±0

5+1

7+0

1±1

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±2

6±0

9±0

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6+0

0+0

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3 + 1

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0.56

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O• J 3 " * 0 0 O l O O C M U 3 0 0 O C M

r0)s-a.

O •S- O

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Group

No.

7778

79

80

81

82

83

84

85

86

87

88

89

Ex(keV)

present a)

5326

5352

5370

5380

5434

5473

5520

5572

5633

5651

ref.19)

5771

5865

5964

5820 ±15

J\T

ref.19)

0+;l

adopted )

ir=+

5+;l

(da)\dttJC.M.(mb/sr)

0.45

0.67

0.33

0.69

0.46

0.18

0.35

0.76

1.69

4.18

0.47

0.82

0.77

(1)1

1

(1)

(1)

(1)

0.08

0.21

0.48

0.075

0.16

0.15

a) All + 5 keV.

b) The uncommented assignments of column 5 are based on the results of ref.19 and the present work; seetext for details.

c) Doublet.d) See text.e) Ref.5.

f) From 4 1Ca( 3He,dy); see sect.3.

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Table

Optical-model parameters

Part-icle

3He

d

P

V(MeV)

165

106

a)

1

1

1

.14

.05

.20

Fm)1

i 0

0

; 0i

a

.723

.85

.65

W

20.

0

0

2

w1

0

46.8

! o

1

1

1

r'

.16

.496

0

a'

0.

0.

0

o

81

63

Vso

0

13.0

0

r

0

0

0

so

.9

a

0

0

0

so

.6

Thomas

0

0

25

Ref.

11,12

13

a) Adjusted to give a binding equal to the experimental separationenergy.For unbound states the depth was calculated using abinding of 100 keV.

Table

40 3 41Ca( He,d) Sc speotroscopic strengths

• 0

i 1

2

3

7/2

3/2"

(3/2,5/2)+

(3/2,5/2)"

1720

2096

2417

1

2

1

3

0

0

.6

.5 a )

. 4 b )

38

3

3

.2

.0

.0

3

0

0

.6

.4

.4

a) 30% statistical uncertainty.

b) Poor DW fit.

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Table *t

4 9 •* no

Analogue states in Ca and Sc

42Sc "CaE (keV)X

0

1587

1872

2486

2814

3245

3322

3446

3754

4548

4727

4827

5084

5120

5651

Ex(keV)

Ref .6

0

1525

1836

2423

2752

3187

3251

3295

3389

3650

44484456

4760

4869

5020

52105474 h)

5778

J ; T

Ref.19)

o+;i

2 +;l 0

Q +;l

2 + ;i

4+;l 0

6+;l

4 +;l 0

0+;l '

2 +;l 0

2 +;l 0

2 +;l 0

2+;l 0

4+;l 0

3+;lc) 0

s+;id) o

V1

.084

.074

.014

.018

.007

.24 a )

.16

.25

.33

.89

.70

£P

1

0

0

0

1

1

0

0

= 3

.3

.66

.24

.64

.1

.3

.26

.04

AE

(keV)

0.05

0.04

0.003

0.01

0.054

.21a)

0.22

0.17

0.29

0.60

0.18

0.80

1.0

0.62

0.23

0.68

1.1

l.S

0.27

0.08

0.01

0.14

(0.10)

(0,16)

(0.11)

e)

e)

e)

0

62

36

63

62

58

71

57

10497

-33

-42

+ 64

-90

-96-127

9 T +1

a) The strength defined as 2J +l S ^

42,b) If £p=l is assumed for the 5380 keV level in Sc,

a spectroscopic factor of 0.2 0 is obtained.

c) Refs. 8 and 9.

d) Refs. 6, 8 and 9.

e) A bracket signifies that £ =3 is possible but not required.

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Table 5

42The summed fp strength in Sc

Configu- J77

ration

(f 7 / 2)

f7/2P3/2

f 7 / 2 P

2 +

1 +

2 +

3 +

4 +

5 +

6 +

7 +

unknown

All

All

All

2 +

3 +

4+

5 +

All

3 +

5 +

unknown

T

1

0

1

0

1

0

1

0

0

0

1

All

1

1

1

1

1

0

0

0

G

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

1

0

3

2

6

0.

0.

0.

0.

1.

0.

0.

1.

(JA+j->

.10

.34

.42

.7.5

.76

.92(1.

.06

21

..39a)(

62

33

03 •

21 C )

39

49c)

48

57

30

38

50

J) S(J. T,+j W T )

1.58

1.79

1.34

1.64

1.34

09)b1.34 (1.59) b )

1.30

1.30

0.22) a' b )

1.61

1.34

1.50

0.66

0.89

0.88

0.70

0.79

0.70

0.56

S/Sshell model

0.79

0.89

0.67

0.86

0.67

0.67(0.80)b)

0.65

0.65

0.80

0.67

0.75

0.66

0.89

0.88

0.70

0.79

0.70

0.56

a) I - 3 strength up to 4 MeV is included.

b) Values obtained assuming 5 for the 2793 and 3792 keV states.

c) Spectroscopic strength calculated assuming the strength of the 4548 keV

level split with 67% to 4+ and 3 3% to 2+ as obtained for the 42Cao

analogue states " ) .

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Table- 6.

Effective two particle matrix elements in

Sc compared to those of Ca and Sc.

Configu-

rationT e(J1J2JT)

(MeV) " So

E(J1J2JT)(MeV)

4 2Ca C )

(f7/2)

f7/2P3/2

3

4 +

5 +

7 +

All

All

2 +

3 +

1

0

1

0

1

0

1

0

0

1

1

1

1

0

0.28

1.39

2.07

2.27

2.91

-2.89

-1.78

-1.10

-0.9

-0.26

-2.13

-2.11

-0.81

-1.04

0.06

) d )1.96(2.16)"' -1.22 (-1.01)d)-0.87

3.25

0.62

1.66

2.80

4.29

5.12

4.81

5.65

3.23

e )

0.07

-2.56

-0.37

-0.68

0-0

0

- 1

.16

.15

. 6 9

.74

0.28

-2.28

-1.59

-0.07

-2.59

-0.94

-0.26

0.08

-0.31

-2.57

-0.99

-0.25

0.08

-0.32

-0.86

-0.08

-0.25

0.49

a) Ref. 28

b) Ref. 6

c) Ref. g

(1) Assumed 5+ for the 2793 and 3792 kcV states.

c) T=0 states of unknown spins were also incorboratcd in the calculation of

these energies.

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Table 7.

Comparison of experimental and calculated spectroscopic factors

41 3 42for low-lying T=0 states strongly excited in the Ca( He,d) Sc

reaction.

S(7/2,j+l/2-»-JO)

Theorya)

•7/2P3/2

Experimentb)

'7/2 p3/2

0 .92

1.0

0 . 4 3

1.16

0 .76

1.71

0

0

0

0

.35

. 2 1

.36

.58

1.76

1 .31

0 .55

1.28

0 . 5 1

1.61

0 .15

0 .46

0 .27

0 .43

a) Spectroscopic factors calculated using the coexistence model

41wave functions of ref.34 in addition to assuming that Ca(g.s)

40is a 90% f.7/0 neutron coupled to a closed Ca core.

b) Spectroscopic factors are renormalized by 1/0.75.

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Figure captions.

Fig. 1. Deuteron spectrum at 12.5 laboratory angle. The group

numbers refer to table 1.

Fig. 2.a.b.c,d. Experimental angular distributions and DWBA

predictions in the c m . system. The normalization of the DWBA

curves corresponds to the experimental spectroscopic strengths of

table 1. It is worth noting that some of the weak transitions

and angular distributions with few data points are shown with

DWBA curves in the figure, although no Jl-assignments have been

extracted for the transitions. These DWBA curves signify a

possible fit to the data but it is not unambiguous, and the

indicated A-values are therefore not quoted in table 1.

Fig. 3. Experimental angular distributions and DWBA predictions

for the Ca( He,d) Sc reaction. The normalization of the DWBA

curves corresponds to the experimental spectroscopic strengths of

table 3.

Fig. U. Comparison of spectroscopic strengths for stripping to

4-1 3 U?the T=l states observed in the present Ca( He,d) Sc reaction and

in the 41Ca(d,p)I+2Ca reaction.6).

Fig- 5. Experimental spectroscopic strengths for proton stripping

to T=0 states in 2Sc. The ordinate is excitation energy in42Sc.

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a.

o

< JD

to

ff

O ii 35 UJCD

S

- 8

o

n o jo

d3d SMDVdi JO

Fig. 1

o

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EXCITATION ENERGY (MeV)

400,3.5 55

350H-

300

a 250ma

CKS

S g^ 200

a.H O

a 150— UIO m

•§ I•£ 2 loo

50

E=20.0 MeV

50

2 5 2 6 2 7 2 8 2 9 3 0 3 1 3 2 3 3 3 4 3 5 3 6 7 ?

DISTANCE ALONG PLATE (cm)

38 39 40 41 42 43 44

mto

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10 - I I I i I -

I—1—1—I—1Ev-2293keV_

o1

d2

- i i

=~ i i

i i 1 -

E,=28«6keV I

V/1 1

-

10 30 50 10 30 50 10 30 50 10 30 50G C M (degrees)

Pig. 2. a

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10 50

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I/I

.a

8

10 50

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r- 156 -

.0°

o-

1

- 1

1

* * }

1

1 1 1

Ex = 5O28keV ;

- I p = f 3 z

\

1 l'

-_

1 -

. 1

1

\J

I

i i

E, = 5K1^=1

A

i i

i .

-

i

l -

n

1 I i rE« = 5434keVIp = 1

id1

IOU

I I I J J.

10 30 50 10 30 50 10 30

e C M ( degrees)

50

Fig. 2d

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006-3353

.Q

I

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70

0c.m. (degrees)

10

40Ca(3He,d)*ScE,"l720HeV

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70

0cm. (degrees)

|

cj

1

4OCo(3He.d)4lSc

Ex - 2096 KeV

CJ

1 0.1

40Ca{3He.d)4lSc

E, ' 2417 keV

£?=\

0 . 10 20 30 40 50 60 70

^trn. (degrees)

10 20 30 40 50 60 70

0cm (degrees)

Fig. 3

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> ^

O

G(7/2,l/2 + j ,

— pO enr

w+.

OJ .

I

~ * +

* +

ro

5

.ro

+

+

•-1**+Oi

++

f>0

ro"CL

p _ OJ ro _en 'o b #o b o b b

i i i i'U ,

ro-

r \ > -

I I

ro

. r o

-.ro

I IOJ

fD"d.

O -

I I

OJ

o

+

Oi

en00

Fig. 4

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G(7/2,l/2+j,l/2-*J,0)ooOf(it

m><OJ

f\>

rv) ben en

ii

O

8 2 en b1 I

en

cn

+ T3II

OJ

Fig. 5

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4. Summary and conclusions.

40 42 42The structure of energy levels in ' Ca and Sc

has been studied using inelastic proton scattering and

one-nucleon stripping and pick-up transfer reactions on

a 41Ca target. Application of the monopole sum rules to these

data hass given the following information on the proper-

41ties of the Ca ground state wave function} i) the

41Ca (g.s.) looks very much like an f7y2 neutron coupled

40to the Ca (g.s.) core, ii) The core-excited component

41of the Ca (g.s.) is determined to be 10% or less.

41Excited posity parity states in Ca were found to

exhibit similar weak-coupling properties in that the summed

41i=3 and £=5 strengths in inelastic proton scattering on Ca

are consistent with a coupling of the f7/2 neutron to the

- - 40

collective 3 and 5 states of the Ca core. However, in

both cases, the highest spin member of the multiplets have

reduced transition strengths, which were interpreted as due

to the influence of blocking in the microscopic structure of

these states.

It was inferred from the partial and total monopole42

sum rule results of the one-nucleon stripping data to Ca42and Sc that the main constituents of the spectroscopic

strength leading to the (f_ ,„) , (f7/2' •7/2P3/2> and

(f configurations have been identified. This was

used to deduce the effective two-particle matrix elements

42 42for these configurations. The Sc and Ca data result in

excellent agreement for the T=l members of the (f7/2 multi-

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plet while the (f_,,,p,/0) matrix elements derived from

42 1

the Sc data are about 0.2 MeV more repulsive than those42

obtained from the Ca data. The modified Kuo-Brown

matrix elements of McGrory agree with the present values to

within a few hundred keV.

The ^7/2^3/2^ matrix elements derived from the present3( He,a) data were compared to the corresponding values

obtained from one-nucleon stripping to mass 34 nuclei. With

the exception of the 5 ,T=0 effective matrix element where

the disagreement between the results is significant, the two

sets of matrix elements are in very good agreement. The

40Ca values are also well reproduced by calculations using

the modified surface delta interaction.

The experimental spectroscopic factors to both the

2T=0 and T=l states of the (f7/2* multiplet are in

remarkable good agreement with the predicted values of

the coexistence model considering the simplicity of this

model.