Sunflower - In-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy at the RIBF

In 2012, Coulomb excitation and secondary fragmentation experiments using radioactive ion beams at relativistic energies have been performed for the first time with the new PreSPEC-AGATA setup. PreSPEC-AGATA is a unique combination of the FRagment Separator(FRS), used for providing and selecting specific radioactive ion beams, the Lund-York-Cologne CAlorimeter (LYCCA), which discriminates...

The study of neutron-rich Ni isotopes, towards 78Ni, is one of the main topics in nuclear physics with exotic beams. In fact, the persistency of the N=50 shell gap far from stability is still an open question with many profound implications on the study of the nuclear structure. The availability of radioactive beams has provided the opportunity to study such neutron-rich Ni isotopes with the...