Experimental Studies Of An Exotic Decay Mode At The Proton Drip‐Line: The Two‐Proton Radioactivity

Two‐proton radioactivity is an exotic decay mode for very proton‐rich nuclei. It was observed experimentally for the first time in 2002 for the nucleus 45Fe but the two protons could not be directly detected. So a new detector has been developed, a Time Projection Chamber, to individually observe the two protons emitted. It was used successfully during two experiments for the study of 45Fe and 54Zn. Energy correlations have been studied and the relative angle between the two protons is calculated.