Spectroscopy of exotic nuclear shapes

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Dietrich Habs
• Subject Area: Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, Fields
• Term: from 2004 to 2011
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 5426571

The collaboration concentrates on the spectroscopy of super- and hyper-deformed nuclear shapes in the actinide region. Using the combination of the experimental possibilities in Munich and in Debrecen we want to study the following questions: - the shape of the triple-humped fission barrier in 231,233Th and 232U. - picosecond fission-isomers in 232,234U and their branching to superasymmetric fission. - the mass- and TKE-distributions of resonances in the third minimum of 233Th and 234U to search for a cluster structure in the third minimum. - High resolution spectroscopy of the E0-back decay of 236fU and of the decay within the second minimum of 236U and 237Pu.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants
• International Connection: Hungary
• Participating Person: Dr. Attila Krasznahorkay