DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2002-10086-8
Measurement
of
level lifetimes in
and
by fast electronic scintillation
timing
M.A. Caprio1, N.V. Zamfir1, 2, 3, E.A. McCutchan1, R.F. Casten1, Z. Berant1, 2, 4, H. Amro1, C.J. Barton1, 5, C.W. Beausang1, D.S. Brenner1, 2, J.R. Cooper1, 6, R.L. Gill7, G. Gürdal1, 2, 8, A.A. Hecht1, C. Hutter1, 9, R. Krücken1, 10, D.A. Meyer1, J.R. Novak1, N. Pietralla1, 11, P.H. Regan1, 12 and J.J. Ressler1
1 Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
2 Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610, USA
3 Institutul National de Fizica si Inginerie Nucleara, RO-76900 Bucuresti-Magurele, Romania
4 Nuclear Research Center Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
5 CLRC Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, Warrington WA4 4AD, United Kingdom
6 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94551, USA
7 Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
8 Istanbul University, 34459 Vezneciler-Istanbul, Turkey
9 Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany
10 Physik Department E12, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
11 Institut für Kernphysik, Universität zu Köln, D-50937 Köln, Germany
12 University of Surrey, Guilford, Surrey GU2 7XH, United Kingdom
mark.caprio@yale.edu
(Received: 2 September 2002 / Published online: 4 February 2003)
Abstract
Lifetime measurements for the
2+1 levels of
162Er and
162Yb were obtained in
decay at the Yale
Moving Tape Collector by fast electronic scintillation timing of
coincidences.
21.10.Re - Collective levels.
21.10.Tg - Lifetimes.
27.70.+q -

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