https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-024-01376-6
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Detailed study of the decay of 
Mg
1
Institut for Fysik & Astronomi, Aarhus Universitet, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark
2
School of Physics, Engineering and Technology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, N Yorkshire, UK
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Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC, 28006, Madrid, Spain
4
Department of Nuclear Physics, Lund University, 22100, Lund, SE, Sweden
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Grupo de Fisica Nuclear, EMFTEL & IPARCOS, Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, L69 7ZE, Liverpool, UK
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Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96, Göteborg, SE, Sweden
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“Horia Hulubei” National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, 077125, Magurele, RO, Romania
9
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, 37996, Knoxville, TN, USA
Received:
9
May
2024
Accepted:
30
June
2024
Published online:
23
July
2024
Beta-delayed proton and gamma emission in the decay of Mg has been measured at ISOLDE, CERN with the ISOLDE Decay Station (IDS) set-up. The existing decay scheme is updated, in particular what concerns proton transitions to excited states in 
Ne. Signatures of interference in several parts of the spectrum are used to settle spin and parity assignments to highly excited states in Na. The previously reported 
p
branch is confirmed. A half-life of 120.5(4) ms is extracted for Mg. The revised decay scheme is employed to test mirror symmetry in the decay and to extract the beta strength distribution of Mg that is compared with theory.
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