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Description
The Letter of Intent is given as an attachment. The abstract is copied below.
Abstract
Multinucleon transfer reactions are known to provide a useful method of populating neutron-rich nuclei in gamma-ray spectroscopy experiments. Recent theoretical calculations have suggested that such reactions could also be used to produce neutron-deficient nuclei, but this has not been properly investigated in experiments. The calculations suggest that it may be possible to produce the neutron-deficient nuclei from (50^)Sn to (_54^)Xe with reasonable cross sections. These nuclei are of considerable interest due to their proximity to N=Z (^100)Sn. In the experiment we will also study the production yields of neutron-deficient nuclei above (_50^100)Sn with multinucleon transfer reactions. We will use a beam of (_50^112)Sn at 650 MeV on a thin (_28^56)Ni target. The beam-like reaction products will be identified using the PRISMA spectrometer, and the prompt decays of excited states will be measured using AGATA. To perform this measurement, we request 14 days of beam time.
