Interplay of quasiparticle and vibrational excitations: First observation of isomeric states in 168Dy and 169Dy

Autor: G.X. Zhang, H. Watanabe, G.D. Dracoulis, F.G. Kondev, G.J. Lane, P.H. Regan, P.-A. Söderström, P.M. Walker, K. Yoshida, H. Kanaoka, Z. Korkulu, P.S. Lee, J.J. Liu, S. Nishimura, J. Wu, A. Yagi, D.S. Ahn, T. Alharbi, H. Baba, F. Browne, A.M. Bruce, M.P. Carpenter, R.J. Carroll, K.Y. Chae, C.J. Chiara, Zs. Dombradi, P. Doornenbal, A. Estrade, N. Fukuda, C. Griffin, E. Ideguchi, N. Inabe, T. Isobe, S. Kanaya, I. Kojouharov, T. Kubo, S. Kubono, N. Kurz, I. Kuti, S. Lalkovski, T. Lauritsen, C.S. Lee, E.J. Lee, C.J. Lister, G. Lorusso, G. Lotay, E.A. McCutchan, C.-B. Moon, I. Nishizuka, C.R. Nita, A. Odahara, Z. Patel, V.H. Phong, Zs. Podolyák, O.J. Roberts, H. Sakurai, H. Schaffner, D. Seweryniak, C.M. Shand, Y. Shimizu, T. Sumikama, H. Suzuki, H. Takeda, S. Terashima, Zs. Vajta, J.J. Valiente-Dóbon, Z.Y. Xu, S. Zhu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Physics Letters B, Vol 799, Iss , Pp - (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0370-2693
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2019.135036
Popis: The neutron-rich dysprosium isotopes 168Dy102 and 169Dy103 have been investigated using the EURICA γ-ray spectrometer, following production via in-flight fission of a high-intensity uranium beam in conjunction with isotope separation through the BigRIPS separator at RIBF in RIKEN Nishina Center. For 168Dy, a previously unreported isomer with a half-life of 0.57(7) μs has been identified at an excitation energy of 1378 keV, and its presence affirmed independently using γ-γ-γ coincidence data taken with Gammasphere via two-proton transfer from an enriched 170Er target performed at Argonne National Laboratory. This isomer is assigned Jπ=Kπ=(4−) based on the measured transition strengths, decay patterns, and the energy systematics for two-quasiparticle states in N=102 isotones. The underlying mechanism of two-quasiparticle excitations in the doubly midshell region is discussed in comparison with the deformed QRPA and multi-quasiparticle calculations. In 169Dy, the B(E2) value for the transition de-exciting the previously unreported Kπ=(1/2−) isomeric state at 166 keV to the Kπ=(5/2−) ground state is approximately two orders of magnitude larger than the E2 strength for the corresponding isomeric-decay transition in the N=103 isotone 173Yb, suggesting the presence of a significant γ-vibrational admixture with a dominant neutron one-quasiparticle component in the isomeric state.
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