Published November 10, 2014 | Version v1
Journal article

Identification of a millisecond isomeric state in 129Cd81 via the detection of internal conversion and Compton electrons

  • 1. RIKEN Nishina Center, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198 (Japan)
  • 2. Departamento de Física Teórica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid (Spain)
  • 3. Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC, E-28006 Madrid (Spain)
  • 4. GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, 64291 Darmstadt (Germany)
  • 5. LPSC, Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1, CNRS/IN2P3, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, F-38026 Grenoble cedex (France)
  • 6. Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Aoba, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8578 (Japan)
  • 7. School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, University of Brighton, Brighton BN2 4JG (United Kingdom)
  • 8. Physik Department E12, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching (Germany)

Description

The decay of an isomeric state in the neutron-rich nucleus 129Cd has been observed via the detection of internal conversion and Compton electrons providing first experimental information on excited states in this nucleus. The isomer was populated in the projectile fission of a 238U beam at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory at RIKEN. From the measured yields of γ-rays and internal conversion electrons, a multipolarity of E3 was tentatively assigned to the isomeric transition. A half-life of T1/2=3.6(2) ms was determined for the new state which was assigned a spin of (21/2+), based on a comparison to shell model calculations performed using state-of-the-art realistic effective interactions

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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2014.09.047

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2014.09.047;
PII
S0370-2693(14)00705-9;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
738
Journal Page Range
p. 223-227
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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