New Precision Mass Measurements of Neutron-Rich Calcium and Potassium Isotopes 
and Three-Nucleon Forces

Gallant, A.T.; Bale, J.C.; Brunner, T.; Chowdhury, U.; Ettenauer, S.; Lennarz, A.; Robertson, D.; Simon, Vanessa V.; Chaudhuri, A.; Holt, J.D.; Kwiatkowski, A.A.; Mané, E.; Menéndez, J.; Schultz, B.E.; Simon, M.C.; Andreoiu, C.; Delheij, P.; Pearson, M.R.; Savajols, H.; Schwenk, A.; Dilling, J.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.032506

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New Precision Mass Measurements of Neutron-Rich Calcium and Potassium Isotopes and Three-Nucleon Forces

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Simon, Vanessa V.
TRIUMF, University of British Columbia, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver;
Division Prof. Dr. Klaus Blaum, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;
Fakulät für Physik und Astronomie, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg;

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Gallant, A., Bale, J., Brunner, T., Chowdhury, U., Ettenauer, S., Lennarz, A., et al. (2012). New Precision Mass Measurements of Neutron-Rich Calcium and Potassium Isotopes and Three-Nucleon Forces. Physical Review Letters, 109(3): 032506, pp. 1-5. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.032506.

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Abstract

We present precision Penning trap mass measurements of neutron-rich calcium and potassium isotopes in the vicinity of neutron number N=32. Using the TITAN system, the mass of ⁵¹K was measured for the first time, and the precision of the ^51,52Ca mass values were improved significantly. The new mass values show a dramatic increase of the binding energy compared to those reported in the atomic mass evaluation. In particular, ⁵²Ca is more bound by 1.74 MeV, and the behavior with neutron number deviates substantially from the tabulated values. An increased binding was predicted recently based on calculations that include three-nucleon (3N) forces. We present a comparison to improved calculations, which agree remarkably with the evolution of masses with neutron number, making neutron-rich calcium isotopes an exciting region to probe 3N forces