https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2018-12604-5
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
E0 transition strengths in 110Pd
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TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, V6T 2A3, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, V5A 1S6, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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Department of Physics, University of Toronto, M5S 1A7, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Department of Physics, University of Surrey, GU2 7XH, Guildford, Surrey, UK
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Department of Physics, University of Guelph, N1G 2W1, Guelph, ON, Canada
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Departments of Chemistry and Physics & Astronomy, University of Kentucky, 40506-0055, Lexington, KY, USA
* e-mail: jsmallcombe@triumf.ca
Received:
22
June
2018
Accepted:
6
September
2018
Published online:
5
October
2018
Internal conversion coefficients have been measured for transitions in 110Pd to allow the determination of electric monopole (E0) transition strengths. Excited states were populated through inelastic alpha scattering and the SPICE+TIGRESS detectors at TRIUMF-ISAC-II were used to detect the emitted gamma rays and internal conversion electrons. The E0 transition strengths are found to be small and are consistent with the expectation for transitions from a K = 2 band to the K = 0 ground-state band in the axial rotor model.
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