Published May 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

Evidence for an isomeric 3/2- state in 53Co

  • 1. Lund Universi2290628ty, Department of Physics, Lund (Sweden)
  • 2. Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung mbH, Darmstadt (Germany)
  • 3. Lund University, Department of Physics, Lund (Sweden)
  • 4. University of Surrey, Department of Physics, Guildford (United Kingdom)
  • 5. Yale University, Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory, New Haven, CT (United States)
  • 6. The Henryk Niewodniczanski, Institute of Nuclear Physics (IFJ PAN), Krakow (Poland)
  • 7. Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Departamento de Fisica Teorica, Madrid (Spain)
  • 8. Universitaet zu Koeln, Institut fuer Kernphysik, Koeln (Germany)
  • 9. University of Sofia, Faculty of Physics, Sofia (Bulgaria)
  • 10. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Sofia (Bulgaria)
  • 11. University of York, Department of Physics, York (United Kingdom)

Description

The fragmentation of a 550MeV/u primary beam of 58Ni on a 9Be target has been used to measure time- and energy-correlated γ decays following the implantation of event-by-event discriminated secondary fragments into a 9Be stopper plate. A new isomeric γ decay with T1/2=14(64) ns and Eγ=646.2(2) keV is observed and attributed to the decay of the yrast 3/2- state in 5327Co26. This short-lived isomeric state has been populated by means of nuclear reactions during the stopping process of the secondary fragments. The experimental findings are discussed in the framework of large-scale spherical shell model calculations in conjunction with isospin symmetry-breaking residual interactions for the A=53, Tz=±1/2 mirror nuclei 53Co and 53Fe. (orig.)

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Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2008-10587-4

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Journal Title
European Physical Journal. A
Journal Volume
36
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 131-138
ISSN
1434-6001