Browsing Faculty of Natural Science by Author "Orce, Nico"
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The design and simulation of a new experimental set up to measure nuclear level lifetimes
Singh, Bhivek (University of the Western Cape, 2016)Measurements of nuclear level lifetimes are an important aspect of experimental nuclear physics. Such measurements determine transition matrix elements for nuclear structure research and also provide the widths of relevant ... -
Design of a helium-6 production target for the iThemba LABS Radioactive-ion Beam Facility
Davis, Lance Garth (University of the Western Cape, 2018)It is well known, that there is a severe lack of information available pertaining to neutron rich nuclei, specifically of those nuclei with mass numbers ≥ 60. These neutron rich nuclei are not easy to access in current ... -
Determining the Spectroscopic Quadrupole Moment Qs of the 2+1 state in 40Ar
Mokgolobotho, Makabata Jeremia (University of the Western Cape, 2017)The rst reorientation-e ect Coulomb-excitation experiment has been performed at iThemba LABS by bombarding 40Ar beams on a heavy 208Pb target at a \safe" energy of Elab =143.2 MeV. The goal was to determine, the spectroscopic ... -
Determining the spectroscopic quadrupole moment of the first 2+ state in 36Ar
Montes, Elias Jose Martin (University of the Western Cape, 2019)A series of reorientation-effect Coulomb-excitation experiments were carried out at iThemba LABS from April to May 2016. Enriched ion beams of Ar, Ar and S were bombarded at safe energies, well below the ... -
Measuring transitional matrix elements using first-order perturbation theory in Coulomb excitation
Masango, Senamile Khethekile Ntombizothando (University of the Western Cape, 2019)The aim of nuclear structure physics is to study the interplay between singleparticle and collective degrees of freedom in nuclei and to explain how nuclei get excited and decay under di erent external conditions, such ... -
Polarizability effects due to low-energy enhancement of the gamma-strength function
Ngwetsheni, Cebo (University of the Western Cape, 2018)Physics is the study of natural phenomena. Nuclear physicists have since the discovery of the nucleus been working on understanding its dynamics. The nuclear chart, analogous to the periodic table of elements, is illustrated ... -
Search for low spin collective structures in 158Er and 159Er
Dinoko, Tshepo Samuel (2013)Lying in a rapidly-changing transitional region between nuclei that may behave as spherical vibrators (N ≤ 88) or good rotors (N ≥ 92), the N = 90 isotones present a unique testing ground where new nuclear collective ... -
Synthesis of the metallocenes for the production of exotic high energy ion beams
Kheswa, Ntombizonke Yvonne (University of the Western Cape, 2019)The Subatomic Physics Department of iThemba Laboratory for Accelerated Based Sciences (iThemba LABS) conducts experiments that require a variety of particle beams in order to study nuclear properties (reaction, structure, ...