Nuclear structure of superheavy nuclei - state of the art and perspectives (@ S$^3$)
Résumé
Decay spectroscopy is a powerful tool to study the low lying nuclear structure
of heavy and superheavy nuclei (SHN). Single particle levels and other structure features
like K isomerism, being important in the fermium-nobelium region as well as for
the spherical shell stabilized SHN, can be investigated. The new separator-spectrometer
combination S3, presently under construction at the new SPIRAL2 facility of GANIL,
Caen, France, together with the high intensity beams of SPIRAL2’s superconducting
linear accelerator (SC LINAC), will offer exciting perspectives for a wide spectrum of
nuclear and atomic physics topics. The installation is designed to employ nuclear physics
methods like decay spectroscopy after separation or atomic physics methods like laser
spectroscopy and mass measurements. The nuclear physics studies will include particle
and photon correlation studies, attacking the open questions in the field, which have been
revealed in earlier studies at facilities like e.g. GSI in Darmstadt, Germany, with the
velocity filter SHIP and the gas-filled separator TASCA, the cyclotron accelerator laboratory
of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, with RITU and its numerous auxiliary
detection set-ups, and FLNR/JINR in Dubna with the DGFRS and VASSILISSA/SHELS
separators.