Measurements of binding energies and electromagnetic moments of silver isotopes : A complementary benchmark of density functional theory

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Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Physics Letters B journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/physletb Letter Measurements of binding energies and electromagnetic moments of silver isotopes – A complementary benchmark of density functional theory R.P. de Grootea,b, ,∗, D.A. Nesterenkoa, A. Kankainena, M.L. Bissellc, O. Beliuskinaa, J. Bonnardd,e, P. Campbellc, L. Canetea, B. Chealf, C. Delafossea, A. de Roubina, C.S. Devlinf, J. Dobaczewskid,g, T. Eronena, R.F. Garcia Ruizh,i, S. Geldhofa, W. Ginsa, M. Hukkanena,j, P. Imgramk, R. Mathiesonf, Á. Koszorúsf, I.D. Moorea, I. Pohjalainena, M. Reponena, B. van den Borneb, M. Viléna, S. Zadvornayaa aAccelerator Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, PB 35(YFL) FIN-40351 Jyväskylä, Finland bKU Leuven, Instituut voor Kern-en Stralingsfysica, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium cDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom dDepartment of Physics, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom eUniversité de Lyon, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon, IN2P3-CNRS-UCBL, 4 rue Enrico Fermi, 69622 Villeurbanne, France fDepartment of Physics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZE, United Kingdom gInstitute of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, ul. Pasteura 5, PL-02-093 Warsaw, Poland hCERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland iMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA jUniversité de Bordeaux, CNRS, LP2I Bordeaux, UMR 5797, F-33170 Gradignan, France kInstitut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Editor: B. Blank We report on a set of high-precision measurements of nuclear binding and excitation energies, as well as nuclear spins, magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole moments of neutron-rich silver isotopes, 113−123Ag. The measurements were performed using the JYFLTRAP mass spectrometer and the collinear laser spectroscopy beamline at the Ion Guide Isotope Separator On-Line (IGISOL) facility. For the first time, we can firmly establish the ordering of the long-lived 𝐼𝜋=1∕2 −, 7∕2+states in these isotopes, and pin down the inversion of these two levels at either 𝐴 = 121 (𝑁= 74) or 𝐴 = 123 (𝑁= 76). We compare these findings to calculations performed with density functional theory (DFT), from which we establish the crucial role that the spin-orbit strength and time-odd mean fields play in the simultaneous description of electromagnetic moments and nuclear binding. 1. Introduction Understanding the structure of atomic nuclei, and its evolution as the number of nucleons changes, requires a comprehensive study of different nuclear properties and continuous development of predictive nuclear methods [1]. Electromagnetic moments and binding energies provide essential information on the validity of theoretical advances, and serve to stringently test predictions through their sensitivity to collectivity and valence nucleon configurations [2–9]. Ab-initio approaches and nuclear density functional theory (DFT) have been shown to provide an emerging microscopic understanding of nuclear structure [10–15]. The fruitful dialogue between experiment and theory was re- * Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (R.P. de Groote). cently highlighted through measurements of the magnetic moments of indium (𝑍= 49), which challenged the single-particle interpretation of their structure [16]. In this letter, we further test DFT calculations, by moving towards a more complicated open-shell system and by comparing simultaneously to measurements of masses, excitation energies, spins, magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole moments of silver isotopes (𝑍= 47). The measurements span between mass numbers 𝐴 = 113 − 123; the mean-squared charge radii were already published [17]. We perform DFT calculations, which self-consistently take into account core-polarization effects, essential for the description of nuclear moments, and thus allow for the use of bare single-particle charges and 𝑔-factors [14,15]. In doing so, we demonstrate an ability to predict all https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2023.138352 Received 3 May 2023; Received in revised form 6 October 2023; Accepted 20 November 2023 Physics Letters B 848 (2024) 138352 2 R.P. de Groote, D.A. Nesterenko, A. Kankainen et al. measured observables, and the complementary sensitivity of the observables to different aspects of the nuclear functionals. Due to the proximity of low-𝑗(2𝑝1∕2) and high-𝑗(1𝑔9∕2) proton orbitals, isomerism (𝑡1∕2 >ms) is common in the silver isotopes. The spin of the ground state has not yet been firmly established along the chain, though it is known that the 1∕2−state is isomeric in 99,101,103Ag, and becomes the ground state at 𝐴 = 105. The ground state in 97,99,101Ag has a spin–parity of 9∕2+, as is predicted also for 125,127Ag. For the mid-shell odd-𝐴isotopes 103−123Ag, a 7∕2+state becomes the second long-lived state in addition to the 1∕2−state. Above 𝐴 = 119, it is not known which state is the ground state and which is the isomer. Recently, a 1∕2−beta-decaying isomer in 123Ag was identified based on gamma-ray transitions to the 1∕2−, 9∕2+and 7∕2+states [18], indicating a re-inversion of the 1∕2−and 7∕2+states occurs at some point in the chain. In this work, combined with the first detailed laser spectroscopy study on neutron-rich silver isotopes, we can unambiguously establish both the spin-parities and the ordering of the studied states using the phase-imaging ion cyclotron resonance technique [19]. 2. Experimental procedure Radioactive silver isotopes were produced at the IGISOL facility in the Accelerator Laboratory of the University of Jyväskylä, using proton-induced fission on a thin uranium foil. The fission products were stopped and thermalized in a helium-filled gas cell operated at a pressure of 300 mbar, and extracted using a sextupole ion guide [20]. The majority of the extracted products were singly-charged ions. After accelerating to 30 kV, the ions were mass-separated using a 55◦dipole magnet, injected into a radiofrequency quadrupole RFQ [21], where they were cooled and bunched. The ion bunches were delivered either into the JYFLTRAP double Penning trap [22], or to the collinear laser spectroscopy beamline [23,24]. 2.1. Collinear laser spectroscopy Collinear laser spectroscopy was performed after a 100 ms cooling and bunching time, using the same methodology as presented in [25]. The ions were neutralized via charge-exchange processes using a charge-exchange cell (CEC) filled with hot potassium vapour. By applying an acceleration potential to the cell, the atoms could be Dopplershifted into resonance with the counter-propagating laser beam. Spectroscopy was performed from the 4𝑑105𝑠 2𝑆1∕2 atomic ground state to the 4𝑑105𝑝 2𝑃3∕2 state, by detecting the fluorescence emitted at 328.1624 nm. For the first experimental run, the laser light was produced using an intra-cavity doubled Spectra Physics 380 dye laser, pumped by a 5 W Verdi 532 nm laser. The following two experimental runs instead used a Matisse DS dye laser pumped by a 10 W Millenia 532 nm laser, frequency doubled using a Matisse WaveTrain. In all campaigns, the dye laser was frequency stabilized to a HighFinesse WSU-10 wavelength meter. Given the large hyperfine splittings of the 𝐼=7∕2 + states, the laser wavelength was chosen to keep the Doppler-tuning voltage between 0 and 2 kV. Hyperfine structures were thus obtained by recording the number of photon counts observed by a Photo-Multiplier Tube as function of the wavelength in the rest frame of the atoms. Regular reference measurements were performed on 109Ag using beams from an offline ion source [26]to detect possible drifts in wavemeter calibration or the ion beam energy. For all odd-𝐴silver isotopes, two states could be observed in the hyperfine spectra (see Fig. 1). The analysis was performed using the SATLAS package [27]. By taking the magnetic dipole 𝐴and electric quadrupole 𝐵constants in ratio with the moments of 109Ag, the magnetic dipole (𝜇) and electric quadrupole (𝑄) moments of the isotopes of interest can be extracted. We used the references suggested in [28,29]: 𝜇109 =−0.1306906(2) 𝜇𝑁 (obtained by correcting experimental data [30]for diamagnetism [31]), 𝐴𝑆1∕2,109 = −1976.932075(17) MHz [32], 𝑄110𝑚=+1.44(10) b[33]and 𝐵𝑃3∕2,110𝑚= 425(18) MHz [34]. For the determination of the magnetic Fig. 1. Example hyperfine spectra of the radioactive odd-𝐴silver isotopes. For the 𝐼=1∕2 −state (middle two peaks), the left peak near -3000 MHz is considerably smaller than the right peak; more time was spent gathering statistics on those channels, by a factor of 2 or 3 depending on the isotope. The vertical scale was furthermore increased to make the resonances more clearly visible. dipole moment we opted to neglect the hyperfine anomaly, which might be as large as a few percent [5], but will require further work to evaluate. For the spin-1/2−states, the upper-state splitting cannot be resolved. We thus fixed the ratio of hyperfine 𝐴constants to the literature ratio of 53.4, determined using the average of two upperstate 𝐴-constants available in literature (𝐴𝑃3∕2,109 =−36.7(7) [35]and 𝐴𝑃3∕2,109 =−37.3(8) [36]). 2.2. Penning-trap mass spectrometry The mass measurements on singly-charged ions were performed using the PI-ICR technique [19,37]at the JYFLTRAP double Penning trap [22]. More details can be found in [38]. The ions were cooled, purified and centred using the mass-selective buffer-gas cooling technique [39] in the first trap and transferred to the second trap. After a few ms, the purified ions of interest were transferred back to the preparation trap for additional cooling. Finally, the ions of interest with charge-to-mass ratio 𝑞∕𝑚were sent to the measurement trap, where their cyclotron frequency 𝜈𝑐=𝑞𝐵∕(2𝜋𝑚)in the magnetic field 𝐵was determined. The phase-accumulation time in the PI-ICR method was chosen to separate the isomeric states of the silver isotopes, while ensuring no overlap with possible contamination. The phase-accumulation time was about 800 ms for 113Ag, 1 s for 115Ag, 1.3 s for 117Ag, 1.2 s for 119Ag, 600 and 700 ms for 121Ag and 400 ms for 123Ag. An example of the phase spots seen on the position-sensitive detector for 123Ag is highlighted in Fig. 2. The atomic masses were determined as 𝑀=𝜈𝑐,𝑟𝑒𝑓 𝜈𝑐 (𝑀𝑟𝑒𝑓 −𝑚𝑒) +𝑚𝑒, where 𝑚𝑒is the electron mass, 𝜈𝑐,𝑟𝑒𝑓 and 𝑀𝑟𝑒𝑓 are the measured cyclotron frequency and atomic mass [40]for the reference. The systematic uncertainties were included in the final uncertainty of the cyclotron frequency ratios [41]. The count-rate class analysis [42]was performed for the frequency ratios to take into account ion-ion interactions. 3. Results and discussion Our results are summarized in Table 1. Fig. 3(a) shows the energy difference between the 1∕2−and 7∕2+states. Two long-lived states were measured separately for the first time for all isotopes, except 121Ag. For 121Ag, a small number of ions 250.6(36) keV above the longlived state were observed but the energy is not in line with the trend of other isomeric states. Most likely, the ions are 105Nb16O+, which is closest to the observed value based on the SCM_Qt program [43]. Due to the Physics Letters B 848 (2024) 138352 3 R.P. de Groote, D.A. Nesterenko, A. Kankainen et al. Table 1 Summary of the spin-parity 𝐼𝜋, hyperfine constants 𝐴and 𝐵, dipole moment 𝜇, quadrupole moment 𝑄, reference ion for the mass and excitation energy measurements, frequency ratios 𝜈𝑟𝑒𝑓 𝑐∕𝜈𝑐, mass-excess values Δ =(𝑀−𝐴)𝑐2and excitation energies 𝐸𝑥. For Q, the error indicates the combination of the statistical uncertainty and the uncertainty on B/Q. See text for discussion on the spin assignments. Nuclide 𝐼𝜋𝐴(𝑆1∕2 [MHz] 𝜇[𝜇𝑁]𝐵(𝑃3∕2)[MHz] 𝑄[b] Ref. 𝜈𝑟𝑒𝑓 𝑐∕𝜈𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑐Δ(keV) 𝐸𝑥(keV) 107Ag 1∕2−-1712(3) -0.1132(2) – – 109Ag 1∕2−-1978(1) -0.13074(3) – – 113Ag 1∕2−––– – 113Ag𝑚0.999 999 564(37) -86964.0(51) – 113Ag𝑚7∕2++9609(5) +4.447(2) +305(12) +1.03(9) 133Cs 0.849 525 774(27) -86918.1(34) 45.8(39) 115Ag 1∕2−-2577(13) -0.1704(9) – – 115Ag𝑚0.999 999 658(13) -84944.9(28) – 115Ag𝑚7∕2++9556(2) +4.4223(9) +309(6) +1.04(8) 133Cs 0.864 590 363(20) -84908.3(24) 36.6(14) 117Ag 1∕2−-2651(12) -0.1752(8) – – 117Ag𝑚0.999 999 726(28) -82188.4(37) – 117Ag𝑚7∕2++9486(2) +4.3897(8) +309(5) +1.05(8) 133Cs 0.879 660 927(17) -82158.6(22) 29.8(31) 119Ag 1∕2−-2582(14) -0.1707(9) – – 119Ag𝑚0.999 999 706(69) -78648.9(84) – 119Ag𝑚7∕2++9581(2) +4.434(1) +276(7) +0.93(8) 133Cs 0.894 737 894(28) -78616.3(35) 32.6(76) 121Ag 7∕2++9610(3) +4.447(1) +249(10) +0.85(8) 133 Cs 0.909 820 3532(91) -74394.0(11) – 121Ag𝑚1∕2−-2718(7) -0.1797(4) – – – (∗) 123Ag 7∕2+133Cs 0.924 907 400(29) -69603.9(36) – 123Ag𝑚1∕2−123Ag 1.000 000 499(77) -69546.7(95) 57.2(88) (∗) Only one state was observed for 121Ag in the PI-ICR measurement, as discussed in the main text. Fig. 2. Projection of the cyclotron motion of 123Ag+ions onto the detector obtained with the PI-ICR technique, using 400 ms phase accumulation time. The coloured bar indicates the number of detected ions in each pixel. estimated short half-life (𝑇1∕2 ≈ 200 ms [44]) and the lower production rate of the 1∕2−state in 121Ag, established by the laser spectroscopy, the number of 1∕2−ions has to be very low after a measurement cycle of one second in the trap. The single state observed in 121Ag in the PI-ICR measurement was therefore attributed to the more abundant longer-lived 7∕2+state (𝑇1∕2 = 770(10) ms [44]). Using the relative production ratios of the groundto isomeric state extracted from the laser spectroscopy data, we can unambiguously assign the measured masses to a specific nuclear state. The excitation energies for 113,117Ag agree well with the literature [45,46]and the mass value of 113Ag with the recently reported value from the Canadian Penning trap [47]. A discrepancy of -4.6(14) keV at 115Ag [48] is observed, which could be explained by low statistics for the ground state and ions detected between the ground and isomeric states in the PI-ICR image spots, potentially caused by a contaminant ion. For 119Ag, we confirm the excitation energy of the 7∕2+isomer, and establish the 1∕2−state as the ground state in 119Ag. This supports the assignment made in recent decay spectroscopy work on 119Ag [49]. We also confirm the spectroscopy result for the excitation energy of the 1∕2−isomer in 123Ag [18]. Therefore, the crossing of the 1∕2−and 7∕2+states can now be pinpointed to occur at either 𝐴 = 121 or 𝐴 = 123. For the high-spin state, the analysis of the laser spectroscopy data was performed assuming 𝐼=5∕2 +, 7∕2+, 9∕2+, from which it was found that only 𝐼=7∕2 +yields 𝑔-factors in line with the well-established values in the neighbouring indium and rhodium chains. Indeed, for all isotopes of indium, 𝑔∼1.23 (except at N=82 [16]) and for rhodium 𝑔∼1.26. For the new data on the silver isotopes, when fitting with 𝐼=5∕2 we find 𝑔∼1.68, with 𝐼=5∕2 we find 𝑔∼1.27, and with 𝐼=9∕2 we find 𝑔∼1. In the case of 113,115,117Ag, there are also E3 internal transitions reported in [46] which support this conclusion. The 𝑔-factors (𝑔=𝜇∕𝐼) are shown graphically in Fig. 3.(b-c) alongside literature values [50,51,30,52,5]. The 𝑔-factors of the 7∕2+states are nearly constant throughout the isotopic chain, whereas those of the 9∕2+states show an increase towards the single-particle estimate, although it is not reached even at 𝑁=50. The 𝑔-factors of the 1∕2− states exhibit a different trend: a linear decrease until 𝑁=68, after which a rather constant value is obtained (𝑔≈−0.35). Similar observations have been made in the indium (𝑍=49) isotopes [53,16], but there the high-spin state is 9∕2+and remains the ground state throughout the chain. 3.1. Comparison to nuclear DFT calculations We compare these measured experimental observables with DFT calculations, plotted alongside the experimental data in Fig. 3. We performed calculations for 97−129Ag (𝑁= 50 – 82) using code HFODD (v3.16m) [54,55], following the recently developed nuclear-DFT description of nuclear moments [14,16,15]. We determined dipole and quadrupole moments of silver isotopes by analysing three-hole unpaired proton configurations along with paired neutron open-shell configurations and unpaired neutron configurations for the closed-shell 𝑁=50& 82 isotopes. For protons, we occupied prolate-deformed single-particle states with angular momenta Ωaligned along the axial-symmetry axis up to 𝑍=50and created three types of three-hole configurations: (i) 7/2 configuration – holes in the [404]±9∕2 and [413]−7∕2 deformed Nilsson states, (ii) 9/2 configuration – holes in [413]±7∕2 and [404]−9∕2, and (iii) 1/2 configuration – holes in [404]±9∕2 and [301]−1∕2. Rotational symmetry was restored by employing the standard angular-momentum projection (AMP) method [56]and the spectroscopic moments were determined for the AMP states.1Apart from the lowest angular-momentum states with 𝐼=7∕2 +, 9∕2+and 1∕2−, projected from configurations 7/2, 9/2 and 1/2, respectively, we also considered the 9∕2+state projected from the 7/2 configuration, which we denote 𝐼= 9∕2(7∕2). Two different Skyrme functionals were used: the UNEDF1 [57], and a modified version of this functional called 1We note that the single-particle observables, such as the nuclear moments studied in this work, are not affected by the singularities of the off-diagonal matrix elements that impact the determination of the symmetry-restored energies [56]. Physics Letters B 848 (2024) 138352 4 R.P. de Groote, D.A. Nesterenko, A. Kankainen et al. Fig. 3. Experimental results compared to DFT calculations. Panel (a) shows the differences of intrinsic energies between the lowest-lying 𝐼=1∕2 and 𝐼=7∕2 states. Panels (b) and (c) show the 𝑔-factors (𝑔=𝜇∕𝐼) of the (i) long-lived 9/2 states for 𝐴 ≤101, (ii) 7/2 states for 𝐴 ≥103, and (iii) 1/2 states. Diamonds show experimental results. Open (full) symbols show DFT results obtained without (with) time-odd mean fields generated by the spin-spin interaction included. Furthermore, squares (circles) indicate calculations performed with the UNEDF1 (UNEDF1SO) functional. The dashed lines show the single-particle (Schmidt) limits. UNEDF1SO [58]with a higher spin-orbit strength adjusted to the deformed shell structure in the actinides. To show the essential impact of the non-zero core spin distribution on the magnetic moments, we performed calculations with and without the time-odd mean fields generated by the spin-spin interaction. The latter was modelled by the isovector Landau parameter 𝑔′ 0=1.7specified according to the methods in Ref. [14,59]. The UNEDF1 functional places the 𝐼=1∕2 −state at an excitation energy of about 1.5 MeV, in stark disagreement with the experimental data. The UNEDF1SO functional yields smaller excitation energies, clarifying this discrepancy, suggesting that the spin-orbit strength of UNEDF1 should be globally readjusted using the result obtained in this Letter as an important anchor point. The measured excitation energies may therefore serve as a benchmark for future developments of functionals. Aside from this offset between the two theoretical curves, very similar trends are obtained for both calculations, which agree reasonably well with the experimental trends. Future experimental efforts to measure the energy differences towards 𝑁=82 would allow for the apparent turnover in the calculated trend after 125Ag to be probed. When the time-odd mean fields generated by the spin-spin interaction are not included (open circles or squares in Fig. 3), the 𝑔-factors land near the single-particle estimates at the neutron shell closures, and gradually drop towards the mid-shell. This drop can be attributed to the coupling between spin and charge distributions; the latter being reflected in the non-zero quadrupole deformations depicted in Fig. 4. Experimentally, significantly smaller magnetic moments are obtained. This difference is considerably larger than a possible effect due to the neglected hyperfine anomaly. By including the time-odd mean fields represented by the Landau parameter 𝑔′ 0, the calculated magnetic moments are brought into agreement with data. Note that the calculations shown in Fig. 3(b) were performed with the value of 𝑔′ 0=1.7(4) recommended for the UNEDF1 functional following the global analysis of magnetic moments across the nuclear landscape [14]. This choice of 𝑔′ 0does not represent a local fit to best match with the data obtained here. The success of DFT calculations in reproducing magnetic moments globally represents a major step forward. The structure of the 9∕2+states appears to be more complex than for 𝐼=7∕2 +. The 𝑔-factors suggest that for all but the semi-magic nucleus 97Ag, the wave function might be a mixture of the 𝐼= 9∕2(7∕2) rotational band member of the 7/2 configuration and the lowest rotational member 𝐼=9∕2 +of the 9/2 configuration. Multi-reference codes need to be developed and applied to prove this statement more quantitatively. Along a similar line, it appears that while the approximate size of the 𝑔-factors of the 𝐼=1∕2 −isotopes can be predicted through the inclusion of time-odd mean fields, this is not sufficient to reproduce the trend observed in experiment. Fig. 4. Comparison of experimental and theoretical spectroscopic quadrupole moments of the 7∕2+states. Colour code is the same as in Fig. 3. The red shaded area indicates the uncertainty due the reference B/Q, while the error bars indicate only our statistical uncertainty on B. Finally, we turn the discussion to the experimental quadrupole moments, plotted in Fig. 4. Alongside statistical error bars determined by experimental aspects, a shaded uncertainty band is also shown, due to the uncertainty of the electric field gradient (Vzz) used to determine the quadrupole moment of the reference isotope (110Ag). A revised value of Vzz would merely shift all data uniformly up or down within the indicated area. The quadrupole moment is not sensitive to the time-odd mean fields, much like the excitation energies, but does display some sensitivity to the choice of spin-orbit strength, as shown in Fig. 4. The UNEDF1 functional produces a trend with a flatter top as compared to UNEDF1SO, which instead yields a more parabolic trend. 4. Conclusions and outlook In conclusion, we reported on measurements of magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole moments, nuclear spins, binding and excitation energies of 113−123Ag. We firmly established the ordering of the long-lived 𝐼𝜋=1∕2 −, 7∕2+states and showed that the inversion of these two levels occurs at 𝐴 = 121 (𝑁= 74) or 𝐴 = 123 (𝑁= 76). Comparing with DFT calculations, several conclusions are drawn. Firstly, the energy difference of the 𝐼=1∕2 −, 7∕2+states is very sensitive to the strength of spin-orbit terms. Secondly, the DFT calculations reproduce the magnitude of dipole and quadrupole moments without the need for localized effective factors, proving its suitability for a global description of these observables. This work also highlights the importance of Physics Letters B 848 (2024) 138352 5 R.P. de Groote, D.A. Nesterenko, A. Kankainen et al. measuring complementary observables. Indeed, in this case the most sensitive way to characterise the spin-orbit strength entering DFT calculations is primarily through the mass measurements, while the time-odd mean fields are best constrained through the study of the magnetic moments. In the future, these measurements should be extended towards more exotic isotopes to provide benchmarks for future developments of multi-reference DFT. Furthermore, measurements of the 𝑔-factors of the 𝐼=1∕2 −states towards both neutron shell closures would help understand the discrepancy between DFT and experiment presented in this work. Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. Data availability Data will be made available on request. Acknowledgements This work was partially supported by the STFC Grant Nos. ST/M006433/1, ST/P003885/1, ST/V001035/1, ST/P004598/1 and ST/P004423/1, and by the Polish National Science Centre under Contract No. 2018/31/B/ST2/02220. RPDG received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 844829. We acknowledge the CSC-IT Center for Science Ltd., Finland, for the allocation of computational resources. This project was partly undertaken on the Viking Cluster, which is a high performance compute facility provided by the University of York. We are grateful for computational support from the University of York High Performance Computing service, Viking and the Research Computing team. The funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 771036 (ERC CoG MAIDEN) and Academy of Finland (Grant Nos. 314733, 320062, 318043, 295207 and 327629) are gratefully acknowledged. We acknowledge W. 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