https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2012-12101-y
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Determination of α-decay branching ratios for 178, 179Hg
1
Instituut voor Kern- en Stralingsfysica, K.U.Leuven, B-3001, Leuven, Belgium
2
Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, SK-84511, Bratislava, Slovakia
3
School of Engineering, University of the West of Scotland, PA1 2BE, Paisley, UK
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Department of Nuclear Physics and Biophysics, Comenius University, SK-84248, Bratislava, Slovakia
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Department of Physics, Oliver Lodge Laboratory, University of Liverpool, L69 7ZE, Liverpool, UK
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Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, FIN-40014, Jyväskylä, Finland
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Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA), Paisley, UK
* e-mail: martin.venhart@savba.sk
Received:
21
May
2012
Accepted:
11
July
2012
Published online:
26
July
2012
The neutron-deficient nuclides 182, 183Pb were produced at the Accelerator Laboratory of the University of Jyväskylä by bombarding a 107Ag target with 78Kr ions. The nuclei of interest were separated using the RITU gas-filled separator and their radioactive decays investigated using the GREAT spectrometer. Correlating the 
decays of these Pb isotopes with those of their respective Hg daughters allowed -decay branching ratios of 
^178Hg) = 89(4)% and ^179Hg) = 75(4)% to be deduced.
© SIF, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2012
