A=65: Ni, Cu, Zn, Ga, Ge

Abstract

This article reviews all the high-resolution data on fragmented analogue states taken at the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, over a period of ten years. There are fifty analogue states observed by proton scattering on targets of masses between 40 and 64, and mass 92. The number of fragments may be only two or three, or as many as fifty. Of the total, only 17 states have a sufficient fine structure pattern where an analysis is attempted. In a few cases, inelastic widths and photon and neutron widths are observed besides proton elastic ones. The article discusses the optimum method of analysis of the data with a view to extracting the physical parameters of the analogue: the energy, proton spectroscopic factor, spreading width, shift and asymetry parameter. The last three quantities are discussed from the viewpoint of the Robson model based on one-channel external mixing of the analogue by Coulomb forces. This model has qualitative success, particularly in describing the large asymmetry sometimes seen, but it is not quantitatively adequate. When the proton spectroscopic factors are compared to the neutron counterparts for the parent (as measured by (d,p) studies), after allowing for Coulomb effects, the proton ones are smaller by an amount which increases to 30% in the heavier nuclei (Ni,Mo). This is in line with the situation on 2 0 8Pb. Thus it seems that the inadequacy of a Coulomb explanation of the analogue-parent energy shift (the Nolen-Schiffer anomaly) has a counterpart in the spectroscopic factors.