https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2004-10120-y
First evidence for chirality in Tc isotopes: Spectroscopy of 100Tc
1
Department of Physics, University of York, York YO10 5DD, Heslington, UK
2
Department of Physics and Astronomy, SUNY at Stony Brook, NY 11794-3800, Stony Brook, USA
3
Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, L69 7ZE, Liverpool, UK
4
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, 164 S. Shaw lane, MI 48824-132, East Lansing, USA
* e-mail: pj9@npg.york.ac.uk
Received:
17
November
2004
Accepted:
22
December
2004
Published online:
28
January
2005
Excited states in 100Tc have been studied using the 96Zr( 7Li, 3n) reaction at a beam energy of 27 MeV. In the present work, evidence has been found for a second ΔI = 1 band decaying via several stretched dipole transitions to the previously known ΔI = 1 negative-parity band. Comparison of these data with those in neighbouring nuclei and also against recently reported criteria for chiral bands in nuclei, suggests that the two structures can be interpreted as chiral partners. Core quasi-particle coupling model calculations show reasonable agreement with the data and generally support the chiral interpretation of the states.
PACS: 21.10.Re Collective levels – / 21.60.-n Nuclear structure models and methods – / 23.20.Lv γ transitions and level energies – / 27.60.+j 90 ⩽ A ⩽ 149 –
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