EURICA Workshop

Symmetry of tetrahedral shape generates a different degeneracy in single particle levels from the quadrupole deformed shape. The stability of the tetrahedral shape is not established in the atomic nuclei. Neutron-rich nucleus 110Zr, which has the doubly magic numbers of tetrahedral shape, Z = 40 and N = 70, is one of the candidates to search for the tetrahedral shape. Recently, we discovered...

The b-decay study of the region around the N=82 shell closure is critical for r-process models. With this experiment we intend to study the decay of the N=82 nuclei 128Pd and 129Ag that are expected to be waiting points for the the r-process in most r-process models, and therefore their study will dramatically improve the reliability of the r-process calculations. New half-lives will also be...

The r-process overabundance in the mass region A~120 has been a subject of considerable scientific interest in the last decade. Different nuclear physics phenomena such as shell-quenching and "unreasonably" long beta-decay half-lives were discussed as possible reasons for the observed discrepancy. Long-lived activities are known to exist throughout a number of odd-Z, even-N and...

Experiments to study excited levels in neutron-rich Z~60 isotopes through isomer spectroscopy will be discussed.