Eur. Phys. J. A (2009) 42: 387-391
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2008-10775-2

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

Lifetime measurements of neutron-rich nuclei around ⁴⁸Ca with the CLARA-PRISMA setup

¹ Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Universitá and INFN Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
² Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (PD), Italy
³ IFIC, CSIC-Universitat de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
⁴ Institut für Kernphysik der Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany

^* e-mail: mengoni@pd.infn.it

Received: 29 December 2008
Revised: 4 March 2009
Accepted: 14 March 2009
Published online: 18 April 2009

Abstract

The lifetimes of excited states in neutron-rich nuclei around the doubly-magic nucleus ⁴⁸Ca have been measured using a novel technique that combines the Recoil Distance Doppler Shift method with the CLARA-PRISMA spectrometers. This is the first time such a method is applied to measure lifetimes of neutron-rich nuclei populated via a multinucleon transfer reaction. The experimental method will be discussed and the results for Ca nuclei will be compared with realistic simulations of the CLARA and PRISMA spectrometers.