Rudolph D, Andreoiu C, Fahlander C, Charity R J, Devlin M, Sarantites D G, Sobotka L G, Balamuth D P, Eberth J, Galindo-Uribarri A, Hausladen P A, Seweryniak D, Steinhardt Th
Department of Physics, Lund University, S-22100 Lund, Sweden.
Phys Rev Lett. 2002 Jul 8;89(2):022501. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.022501. Epub 2002 Jun 19.
Five prompt proton decay lines have been identified between deformed states in (59)Cu and three spherical states in (58)Ni by means of high-resolution in-beam particle-gamma gamma coincidence spectroscopy. The GAMMASPHERE array coupled to dedicated ancillary detectors including four Delta E-E silicon strip detectors was used to study high-spin states in (59)Cu. The multiple discrete proton lines are found to probe the wave functions of states in the decay-out regime of well- and superdeformed states.
