https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-021-00500-0
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Low lying particle-hole states in 
Pb and 
Pb and the shell model
, Gustav-Kirchhoff-Str. 7/1, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
Received:
20
November
2020
Accepted:
23
May
2021
Published online:
30
June
2021
The nucleus 
differs from the doubly magic nucleus 
by two missing neutrons. In most states at 
MeV are described by one-particle one-hole configurations. The lowest configurations with a g
particle and dominant p
, f
, p
holes and admixtures from f
and a few more configurations build an ensemble of two dozen states at 3.2
MeV. They are described by rather complete orthonormal transformation matrices of two dozen states with spins from 2
to 8 to configurations. In a similar ensemble of states is deduced from the analysis of angular distributions measured in 1969 for the 
reaction via the g IAR in 
. An equivalent experiment was performed in 1968 at the Max–Planck–Institut für Kernphysik at Heidelberg (Germany). New spins are determined for 32 states and 22 levels in . The comparison to corresponding states in studied especially in 1982 yields both remarkable similarities and clear differences. Sizeable gp strength found in 4 and 5 states is interpreted as admixtures of 
and 
components to the ground state of with dominant 
character. The description of nuclear states by shell model particle-hole configurations in the lead region needs the inclusion of collective excitations at already very low excitation energies. For the two isotopes and a rather good agreement of excitation energies and configuration mixing is observed for states at 3.7
MeV.
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