Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / The Coulomb excitation of 66Ge has been performed for the rst time using \safe"
bombarding energies at the HIE-ISOLDE facility at CERN in July 2017. A particle-
coincidence experiment using the MINIBALL array and double-sided silicon detectors
has allowed the determination of transitional and diagonal matrix elements in 66Ge,
yielding new measurements of the reduced transition probability connecting the ground
state, 0+1
, and the rst excited state, 2+1
, or B(E2; 2+1
! 0+1
) value, and the spectroscopic
quadrupole moment of the 2+1
state, QS (2+1
). A relatively large B(E2) = 29:4(30) W.u.
has been extracted using beam-gated data at forward angles { less sensitive to secondorder
e ects { as compared with the adopted value of 16:9(7) W.u., but in closer agreement
with modern large-scale shell-model calculations using a variety of e ective interactions
and beyond-mean eld calculations presented in the current work. / 2022
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uwc/oai:etd.uwc.ac.za:11394/8241 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Abrahams, Kenzo |
| Contributors | Orce, Nico |
| Publisher | University of Western Cape |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | University of Western Cape |
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