Published July 1999 | Version v1
Journal article

Confirmation of the Shears Mechanism in Near-Spherical Tin Nuclei

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of York, Heslington, York Y01 5DD (United Kingdom)
  • 2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, (Canada) L85 4M1
  • 3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)
  • 4. Department of Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800 (United States)
  • 5. Chalk River Laboratories, AECL Research, Chalk River, Ontario, K0J 1J0 (CANADA)
  • 6. FZ Rossendorf, Postfach 510119, D-01314 Dresden (Germany)

Description

Lifetimes of states of a magnetic dipole band in each of the nuclei 106,108Sn have been obtained using the Doppler shift attenuation method. The deduced B(M1) transition rates show the characteristic behavior associated with the shears mechanism. A simplified semiclassical analysis yields B(M1) values in qualitative agreement with those expected for previously assigned configurations. The results suggest extremely low deformations for these dipole structures. In particular, the 106Sn band appears to be the first example of almost pure magnetic rotation in a spherical nucleus. copyright 1999 The American Physical Society

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
83
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 500-503
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO