Shell evolution of = 40 isotones towards Ca; First spectroscopy of Ti

Corts, M. L.*; Rodriguez, W.*; Doornenbal, P.*; Obertelli, A.*; Holt, J. D.*; Lenzi, S. M.*; Menndez, J.*; Nowacki, F.*; Ogata, Kazuyuki*; Poves, A.*; Rodrguez, T. R.*; Schwenk, A.*; Simonis, J.*; Stroberg, S. R.*; Yoshida, Kazuki   ; Achouri, L.*; Baba, Hidetada*; Browne, F.*; Calvet, D.*; Chteau, F.*; Chen, S.*; Chiga, Nobuyuki*; Corsi, A.*; Delbart, A.*; Gheller, J.-M.*; Giganon, A.*; Gillibert, A.*; Hilaire, C.*; Isobe, Tadaaki*; Kobayashi, Toshio*; Kubota, Yuki*; Lapoux, V.*; Liu, H. N.*; Motobayashi, Toru*; Murray, I.*; Otsu, Hideaki*; Panin, V.*; Paul, N.*; Sakurai, Hiroyoshi*; Sasano, Masaki*; Steppenbeck, D.*; Stuhl, D.*; Sun, Y. L.*; Togano, Yasuhiro*; Uesaka, Tomohiro*; Wimmer, K.*; Yoneda, Kenichiro*; Aktas, O.*; Aumann, T.*; Chung, L. X.*; Flavigny, F.*; Franchoo, S.*; Gapari, I.*; Gerst, R.-B.*; Gibelin, J.*; Hahn, K. I.*; Kim, D.*; Koiwai, Takuma*; Kondo, Yosuke*; Koseoglou, P.*; Lee, J.*; Lehr, C.*; Linh, B. D.*; Lokotko, T.*; MacCormick, M.*; Moschner, K.*; Nakamura, Takashi*; Park, S. Y.*; Rossi, D.*; Sahin, E.*; Sohler, D.*; Sderstrm, P.-A.*; Takeuchi, Satoshi*; Trnqvist, H.*; Vaquero, V.*; Wagner, V.*; Wang, S.*; Werner, V.*; Xu, X.*; Yamada, Hiroki*; Yan, D.*; Yang, Z.*; Yasuda, Masahiro*; Zanetti, L.*

Excited states in the = 40 isotone Ti were populated via the V(,)Ti reaction at 200 MeV/nucleon at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory and studied using -ray spectroscopy. The energies of the and transitions, observed here for the first time, indicate a deformed Ti ground state. These energies are increased compared to the neighboring Cr and Fe isotones, suggesting a small decrease of quadrupole collectivity. The present measurement is well reproduced by large-scale shell-model calculations based on effective interactions, while ab initio and beyond mean-field calculations do not yet reproduce our findings.