Published March 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Lifetime measurements of yrast states in 162Yb and 166Hf

  • 1. Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 (United States)
  • 2. National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest-Magurele (Romania)
  • 3. Institut fuer Kernphysik, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, D-64289 (Germany)
  • 4. Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts 01610 (United States)
  • 5. University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH (United Kingdom)

Description

Lifetime measurements of yrast levels in 162Yb and 166Hf were performed using the recoil distance Doppler-shift method in coincidence mode. Excited states in 162Yb and 166Hf were populated via the reactions 116Cd(50Ti, 4n) and 122Sn(48Ti, 4n), respectively. The resulting B(E2) values are compared with the X(5) critical point model predictions and interacting boson approximation (IBA) model calculations. The X(5) model provides a reasonable description of the yrast B(E2) values in 166Hf, whereas the IBA fails to reproduce the transition strengths from the higher spin levels. In 162Yb, some transitions agree with the X(5) predictions while others are more consistent with the predictions of the IBA or a deformed symmetric rotor

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Journal Title
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
Journal Volume
73
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 034303-034303.9
ISSN
0556-2813
CODEN
PRVCAN

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(c) 2006 The American Physical Society