Fast-timing measurements in the ground-state band of Pd114

Autor: T. Lauritsen, T. Kröll, L. A. Gurgi, F. G. Kondev, G. J. Lane, I. Burrows, D. M. Cullen, O. Yordanov, S. Lalkovski, Alison Bruce, John P. Greene, T. Daniel, V. F. E. Pucknell, D. Seweryniak, D. J. Hartley, Gavin Lotay, C. M. Shand, M. Smolen, T. Berry, S. Bottoni, C. R. Niţă, E. A. Stefanova, J. Sethi, E.R. Gamba, R. Ilieva, M. Carmona Gallardo, S. Zhu, J. Rohrer, J. T. Anderson, A. D. Ayangeakaa, S. Ilieva, J. Simpson, Matthew Reed, M. P. Carpenter, P. Copp, M. Rudigier, V. Vedia, I.H. Lazarus, P. H. Regan, Raymond J. Carroll, Zs. Podolyák, G. Fernández Martínez
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Physical Review C. 100
ISSN: 2469-9993
2469-9985
DOI: 10.1103/physrevc.100.044309
Popis: Using a hybrid Gammasphere array coupled to 25 LaBr3(Ce) detectors, the lifetimes of the first three levels of the yrast band in ¹¹⁴Pd populated via ²⁵²Cf decay, have been measured. The measured lifetimes are τ₂+=103(10)ps, τ₄+=22(13)ps, and τ₆+≤10ps for the 2⁺₁, 4⁺₁, and 6⁺₁ levels, respectively. Palladium-114 was predicted to be the most deformed isotope of its isotopic chain, and spectroscopic studies have suggested it might also be a candidate nucleus for low-spin stable triaxiality. From the lifetimes measured in this work, reduced transition probabilities B(E2;J→J−2) are calculated and compared with interacting boson model, projected shell model, and collective model calculations from the literature. The experimental ratio RB(E₂)=B(E2;4⁺₁→2⁺₁)/B(E2;2⁺₁→0⁺₁)=0.80(42) is measured for the first time in ¹¹⁴Pd and compared with the known values RB(E₂) in the palladium isotopic chain: the systematics suggest that, for N=68, a transition from γ-unstable to a more rigid γ-deformed nuclear shape occurs.
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