States in odd-odd 116Sb excited by the decay of 116Te

Gamma-ray spectroscopic experiments have been performed on the β+/epsilon decay of 2.50-h 116Te. Results from these experiments and from complementary in-beam γ-ray angular distributions were used to construct a decay scheme. Twenty-one γ rays were identified and placed in the decay scheme containing states in 116Sb at 0 (J/sup π/=3+), 93.7 (1+), 103.0 (2+), 446.0 (3), 550.9 (2), 574.4 (2), 731.7 (1+), 917.7 (1+), and 1158.3 (1+) keV. The structures of the odd-odd Sb states are analyzed and discussed in simple shell-model terms