DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2001-10250-8
The neutron and proton two-particle nucleus
:
New low-spin states observed in the decay of
and an estimate of the energy of the
isomer
A. Korgul1, H. Mach2, B. Fogelberg2, W. Urban1, W. Kurcewicz1, T. Rzaca-Urban1, P. Hoff3, H. Gausemel3, J. Galy2, J.L. Durell4, W.R. Phillips4, A.G. Smith4, B.J. Varley4, N. Schulz5, I. Ahmad6, L.R. Morss6, M. Górska7, V.I. Isakov8, K.I. Erokhina9, J. Blomqvist10, F. Andreozzi11, F. Coraggio11, A. Covello11 and A. Gargano11
1 Institute of Experimental Physics, Warsaw University, ul. Hoza 69, 00-681 Warszawa, Poland
2 Department of Radiation Science, Uppsala University, S-61182 Nyköping, Sweden
3 Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1033 Blindern, N-00315 Oslo, Norway
4 Schuster Laboratory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
5 Institut de Recherches Subatomiques UMR7500, CNRS-IN2P3 and Université Louis Pasteur, 67037 Strasbourg, France
6 Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA
7 Instuut voor Kern- en Stralingsfysica, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium
8 Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Gatchina, 188350, Russia
9 Ioffe Physicotechnical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 194021, Russia
10 Department of Physics Frescati, Royal Institute of Technology, S-10405 Stockholm, Sweden
11 Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Università di Napoli Federico II and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy
anovak@fuw.edu.pl
(Received 21 March 2002 / Published online: 31 October 2002)
Abstract
Excited states in the
nucleus, populated
in the
-decay of
, have been studied at
the mass separator OSIRIS. The
activity was
produced via fast neutron-induced fission of
target. A main result was the discovery of a very low-lying first-excited state of
, at 13 keV, which has led to
a strong revision of the level scheme. The new results are
compared with different theoretical calculations and with the
known data for the analogous neutron and proton two-particle
nucleus in the
region. On the basis of this
comparison, the energy of the (
)
7- isomer is estimated to be about 250 keV,
some 100 keV lower than previously reported.
23.40.-s - Beta decay; double beta decay; electron and muon capture.
23.20.Lv - Gamma transitions and level energies.
21.60.Cs - Shell model.
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