Eur. Phys. J. A 16, 177-180 (2003)
DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2002-10086-8

Measurement of level lifetimes in and by fast electronic scintillation timing

M.A. Caprio¹, N.V. Zamfir^{1, 2, 3}, E.A. McCutchan¹, R.F. Casten¹, Z. Berant^{1, 2, 4}, H. Amro¹, C.J. Barton^{1, 5}, C.W. Beausang¹, D.S. Brenner^{1, 2}, J.R. Cooper^{1, 6}, R.L. Gill⁷, G. Gürdal^{1, 2, 8}, A.A. Hecht¹, C. Hutter^{1, 9}, R. Krücken^{1, 10}, D.A. Meyer¹, J.R. Novak¹, N. Pietralla^{1, 11}, P.H. Regan^{1, 12} and J.J. Ressler<sup>1

1</sup>  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.

PACS
21.10.Re - Collective levels.
21.10.Tg - Lifetimes.
27.70.+q - .

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