Published September 1997 | Version v1
Journal article

A thirty second isomer in 171Hf

  • 1. Schuster Laboratory, University of Manchester, M13 9PL (United Kingdom)
  • 2. School of Physics and Space Research, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT (United Kingdom)
  • 3. Accelerator Laboratory, University of Jyvaeskylae, PL 35 Jyvaeskylae SF-403 51 (Finland)

Description

An isomer has been detected in 171Hf with a half-life of T1/2 29.5(9) s. The state was populated in the 170Yb(α,3n)171mHf reaction at a beam energy of Eα = 50 MeV in an on-line ion guide isotope separator. The isomeric 171mHf+ beam was extracted from the ion guide, mass-analysed and implanted in the surface of a microchannel-plate. The half-life of the collected activity was measured from the decay of the microchannel-plate count rate. We associate the isomer with the first excited state in 171Hf with spin 1/2- at an excitation energy of 22(2) keV. (author)

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Journal Title
Journal of Physics. G, Nuclear and Particle Physics (Online)
Journal Volume
23
Journal Issue
9
Journal Page Range
p. 1141-1143
ISSN
1361-6471

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8 refs; This record replaces 31045241