Sub-Barrier Coulomb Excitation of [sup 106,108,110]Sn
Abstract
The reduced transition probabilities between the first excited 2+ state and the 0+ ground state, B(E2;0+→2+), have been measured in 106,108,110Sn using sub‐barrier Coulomb excitation in inverse kinematics at REX‐ISOLDE. The results are, B(E2;0+→2+) = 0.220(22), 0.226(17), and 0.228(32)e2b2, for 110Sn, 108Sn, and 106Sn, respectively. The results for 106,108Sn are preliminary. De‐excitation γ‐rays were detected by the MINIBALL Ge‐array. The B(E2) reveals detailed information about the nuclear wave function. A shell model prediction based on an effective CD‐Bonn interaction in the ν(0g7/2,2s,1d,0h11/2) model space using eeffν = 1.0 e follows the experimental values for the neutron rich Sn isotopes, but fails to reproduce the results presented here.