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Discovery of highly excited long-lived isomers in neutron-rich hafnium and tantalum isotopes through direct mass measurements

  • M. W. Reed
  • , I. J. Cullen
  • , P. M. Walker
  • , Yu A. Litvinov
  • , K. Blaum
  • , F. Bosch
  • , C. Brandau
  • , J. J. Carroll
  • , D. M. Cullen
  • , A. Y. Deo
  • , B. Detwiller
  • , C. Dimopoulou
  • , G. D. Dracoulis
  • , F. Farinon
  • , H. Geissel
  • , E. Haettner
  • , M. Heil
  • , R. S. Kempley
  • , R. Knöbel
  • , C. Kozhuharov
  • J. Kurcewicz, N. Kuzminchuk, S. Litvinov, Z. Liu, R. Mao, C. Nociforo, F. Nolden, W. R. Plass, A. Prochazka, C. Scheidenberger, M. Steck, Th Stöhlker, B. Sun, T. P.D. Swan, G. Trees, H. Weick, N. Winckler, M. Winkler, P. J. Woods, T. Yamaguchi

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    Abstract

    A study of cooled Au197 projectile-fragmentation products has been performed with a storage ring. This has enabled metastable nuclear excitations with energies up to 3 MeV, and half-lives extending to minutes or longer, to be identified in the neutron-rich nuclides Hf183,184,186 and Ta186,187. The results support the prediction of a strongly favored isomer region near neutron number 116.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number172501
    JournalPhysical Review Letters
    Volume105
    Issue number17
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 18 Oct 2010

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