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Proton Emission – New Results and Future Prospects EPJ Web of Conferences 123, 01007 (2016) DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201612301007 Heavy Ion Accelerator Symposium 2015 Proton emission – new results and future prospects R. D. Page1,a 1Department of Physics, Oliver Lodge Laboratory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZE, United Kingdom Abstract. Proton emission is the radioactive decay mode that is expected to determine the limit of observable proton-rich nuclei for most elements. Considerable progress has been made in the study of proton-emitting nuclei since the first observation of direct proton emission nearly 50 years ago. This has led to improvements in our understanding of this decay process and provided invaluable nuclear structure data far from the valley of beta stability. The rapid fall in half-lives with increasing neutron deficiency when proton emission dominates makes it likely that for some elements, the lightest isotopes whose ground states can be observed in conven- tional experiments have already been reached. The enhanced stability against proton emission of the recently discovered high-lying isomer in 158Ta raises the possibility that proton emission from multiparticle isomers could be observed in nuclei beyond the expected boundaries of the nuclear landscape. 1 Introduction through alpha decays or the daughter nuclides are alpha emitters. This makes searches for proton-decay peaks with Isomers are a widespread feature across the chart of nu- low numbers of counts very sensitive, because the alpha clides and their study can provide an important testing decays have characteristic energies that can be cleanly se- ground for a range of nuclear theories [1]. The existence lected for correlation analyses and they tend to have fairly of isomeric states is also an important consideration in the short half-lives, which result in relatively low levels of study of nuclei beyond the proton drip line and is inextri- background from false correlations. cably linked to the question of the limits of observable nu- The structure of nuclei in this region is governed at low clei. The first experimentally observed case of direct pro- excitation energies by valence neutrons in the ν f / and ton emission was from a high-spin isomer in 53Co [2, 3]. In 7 2 νh / orbitals and protons in the πs / , πd / and πh / or- this unique case, the proton emitter’s ground state is bound 9 2 1 2 3 2 11 2 bitals. In odd-Z nuclides, two states are generally found to proton emission, but the excitation energy of the proton- at low excitation energies that can decay by proton, al- unbound isomer is sufficient to overcome the retarding ef- pha or beta emission (see Fig. 1a). In odd-A nuclei, the fect of the centrifugal barrier and results in a proton-decay states usually have either an unpaired s / or h / pro- branching ratio of ∼1.5 %. Subsequent studies of proton 1 2 11 2 ton, while in odd-odd nuclei either a d / or h / proton is emission have primarily focused on low-lying states in nu- 3 2 11 2 coupled with an f / neutron to form the low-lying states. clei beyond the proton drip line. As these studies reach the 7 2 According to the Nordheim rules [7, 8], the lowest-energy limits of nuclei that are accessible using recoil separators, state formed by coupling a d3/2 proton with an f7/2 neutron attention may again switch to proton emission from high- − would have spin and parity 2 , while the lowest-energy lying isomeric states, in nuclei far beyond the proton drip state when coupling an h11/2 proton with an f7/2 neutron line. + would be 9 . The energy differences between the states have been found to be ≤300 keV (see Fig. 1b), so direct 2 Proton emission from low-lying states gamma decays from the isomeric state to the ground state in both odd-A and odd-odd nuclides would be very slow The discovery of the first cases of proton emission from owing to the large spin difference. Consequently charged nuclear ground states [4, 5] followed a decade after the particle emission generally dominates from the low-lying 53 Co results and many further proton emitters have been isomeric states and approximately half of the known cases discovered since [6]. Approximately half of the presently of proton emission in this region are from these isomers, known cases of direct one-proton emission have been with the remainder being from ground states. found in the region beyond the proton drip line that is This pattern of two low-lying states is generally borne bounded by the N = 82 and Z = 82 shell closures. In to- out, as can be seen in Fig. 1a, except for a few of tal, 21 cases of direct proton emission in this region have the most exotic nuclei where only the πh / state has been reported to date. One reason for this rich sample 11 2 been observed. This is thought to be because the low- is that either the proton-decaying states can be populated spin ground states are too short-lived to survive the flight ae-mail: [email protected] time through a recoil separator [12–15, 17, 18]. The © The Authors, published by EDP Sciences. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). EPJ Web of Conferences 123, 01007 (2016) DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201612301007 Heavy Ion Accelerator Symposium 2015 79 Au (a) Tl (b) (a) 2 2 Au Lu Au 77 Ir Lu Ir 1 1 75 Re Ir Tm Re Tm Re Ta 73 Ta both isomers 0 Ta 0 Atomic number Z high–spin only even N odd N 71 Lu low–spin only high spin high spin 82 84 86 88 90 92 94 96 98 (c)78 82 86 90 94 (d)78 82 86 90 94 250 (b) 2 2 Au –value (MeV) Au Au 200 p Lu Re Ir 150 Ir Q 1 1 Ir Lu Tl 100 Tm Ta Tl Re 50 Re Ta 0 0 Ta 0 Lu even N odd N –50 low spin low spin Energy difference (keV) –100 78 82 86 90 94 78 82 86 90 94 82 84 86 88 90 92 94 96 98 Neutron number Neutron number N Figure 1. (a) Chart indicating the observed low-lying isomers Figure 2. Experimental proton-decay Q-values of odd-Z ele- in odd-Z nuclei. The triangles indicate nuclei in which only the ments from Tm to Tl measured directly are shown by the filled high-spin isomer has been observed, the squares indicate those circles. Values estimated by combining these values with α- in which both the high-spin and low-spin isomers have been ob- decay measurements are indicated by the empty circles. (a) is 160 πh Z N served and the circle indicates Re, which is the only nuclide for high-spin ( 11/2) states in odd- , even- nuclei, while (b) in this region where only the low-spin isomer has been observed. shows the corresponding values for odd-Z, odd-N nuclei. (c) and πs πd Z Nuclides to the left of the line are known proton emitters. (b) (d) show the values for low-spin ( 1/2 or 3/2) states in odd- , N Z N Energy differences between the πh11/2 isomers and the low-spin even- and odd- , odd- nuclei, respectively. Data are taken (πs1/2 or πd3/2) isomers. The low-spin isomers represent the from Refs. [4, 5, 9–18, 21, 23–32]. ground states of the nuclides shown, except for the Lu isotopes for which the πh11/2 configuration forms the ground state. The open symbols denote odd-A nuclei, while odd-odd nuclei are in- dicated by the filled symbols. Data are taken from Refs. [9–16]. smooth behaviour of the Qp values as a function of neu- tron number allows local extrapolations of the trends to be made, which can be used to predict the decay proper- ties of as yet unobserved states [33]. This makes it pos- 160 only other exception is the case of Re, for which pro- sible to identify good candidates for new proton emitter ton and alpha-particle emission have only been observed searches and to evaluate whether the limits of observable d from the 3/2 ground state [19–21]. In this nuclide a 2.8- nuclei using conventional recoil separator techniques may microsecond gamma-decaying isomer was identified [20] have been reached. and subsequent in-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy mea- surements suggested that the isomer was based on a πh11/2 orbital [22]. The discovery of the alpha-decay branch from 164 3 Proton emission from high-lying the πh11/2 state in Ir established the excitation energy of the corresponding state in 160Re, which was interpreted as isomers being the isomeric state [15]. It seems that in 160Re the multiplets of states formed by coupling the odd neutron In addition to the low-lying isomeric states discussed in and proton are so arranged as to allow a gamma-ray decay the previous section, higher-lying multiparticle isomers path that has a much shorter half-life than either proton or are also known in this region. For example, seniority 3 πh πh3 / − N = alpha emission from the 11/2 isomeric state [20]. [ 11/2]27 2 isomers have been identified in the 82 Measurements of proton-decay energies can be used to isotones 149Ho, 151Tm and 153Lu [34–36]. The possibil- deduce Qp values that can be compared with predictions of ity of proton emission from the corresponding isomer in 155 154 atomic mass models.
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