Physics Program

The MINOS physics program is dedicated to the spectroscopy of unstable nuclei. For the period 2013-2015, it is focused at RIBF on both gamma spectroscopy with DALI2 and the Zero Degree Spectrometer and invariant-mass spectroscopy with NEBULA at SAMURAI. Combinations of DALI2, SAMURAI and MINOS are also foreseen.

Accepted experiments with grade S or A and construction proposal presented at the RIBF Nuclear Physics PAC and related to MINOS are:

• MINOS Construction Proposal, PAC11, A. Obertelli (CEA Saclay)
• Spectroscopy of neutron-rich Ca isotopes, PAC12, J. Lee (RIKEN Nishina Center)
• Shell Evolution and Systematic Search for 2⁺₁ Energies, Proposal for Scientific Program (SEASTAR), PAC13, P. Doornenbal (RIKEN Nishina Center) and A. Obertelli (CEA Saclay)
• Spectroscopy of unbound oxygen isotopes II, PAC13, Y. Kondo (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
• Two-Neutron Momentum Correlation in Borromean Nuclei, PAC13, A. Corsi (CEA Saclay) and Y. Kubota (CNS)

Performed experiments with MINOS are:

• SEASTAR 1 (May 2014): first spectroscopy of ⁶⁶Cr, ^70,72Fe, ⁷⁸Ni
• SAMURAI18 (December 2014): study of di-neutron correlation in ¹¹Li, ¹⁴Be, ¹⁷B
• SEASTAR 2 (May 2015): first spectroscopy of ^82,84Zn, ⁸⁸Ge, ^90,92,94Se, ^98,100Kr, ¹¹⁰Zr