Gamow - Teller transition strengths from 56 Fe extracted from the 56 Fe ( t , 3 He ) reaction

M. Scott,1,2,3 Y. Shimbara,4,* Sam M. Austin,1,3 D. Bazin,1 B. A. Brown,1,2,3 J. M. Deaven,1,2,3,† Y. Fujita,5,6 C. J. Guess,7,‡ S. Gupta,8 G. W. Hitt,9 D. Koeppe,1,2,3 R. Meharchand,1,2,3,§ M. Nagashima,4 G. Perdikakis,3,10 A. Prinke,1,2,3,‖ M. Sasano,1,2,3,¶ C. Sullivan,1,2,3 L. Valdez,1,2,3,** and R. G. T. Zegers1,2,3,†† 1National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA 3Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA 4Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University, Niigata 950-2181, Japan 5Department of Physics, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan 6Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Osaka University, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan 7Department of Physics and Applied Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts 01854, USA 8Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Ropar, Punjab, 140001, India 9Department of Applied Mathematics and Sciences, Khalifa University of Science, Technology, and Research, P.O. Box 127788, Abu Dhabi, UAE 10Department of Physics, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48859, USA (Received 5 February 2014; revised manuscript received 26 May 2014; published 4 August 2014)