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    Leistenschneider, E; Dunling, E; Bollen, G; Brown, B A; Dilling, J; Hamaker, A; Holt, J D; Jacobs, A; Kwiatkowski, A A; Miyagi, T; Porter, W S; Puentes, D; Redshaw, M; Reiter, M P; Ringle, R; Sandler, R; Sumithrarachchi, C S; Valverde, A A; Yandow, I T

    Physical review letters, 2021-Jan-29, Letnik: 126, Številka: 4
    Journal Article

    We report high-precision mass measurements of ^{50-55}Sc isotopes performed at the LEBIT facility at NSCL and at the TITAN facility at TRIUMF. Our results provide a substantial reduction of their uncertainties and indicate significant deviations, up to 0.7 MeV, from the previously recommended mass values for ^{53-55}Sc. The results of this work provide an important update to the description of emerging closed-shell phenomena at neutron numbers N=32 and N=34 above proton-magic Z=20. In particular, they finally enable a complete and precise characterization of the trends in ground state binding energies along the N=32 isotone, confirming that the empirical neutron shell gap energies peak at the doubly magic ^{52}Ca. Moreover, our data, combined with other recent measurements, do not support the existence of a closed neutron shell in ^{55}Sc at N=34. The results were compared to predictions from both ab initio and phenomenological nuclear theories, which all had success describing N=32 neutron shell gap energies but were highly disparate in the description of the N=34 isotone.