K-mixing in the doubly mid-shell nuclide 170Dy and the role of vibrational degeneracy

P. A. Söderström*, P. M. Walker, J. Wu, H. L. Liu, P. H. Regan, H. Watanabe, P. Doornenbal, Z. Korkulu, P. Lee, J. J. Liu, G. Lorusso, S. Nishimura, V. H. Phong, T. Sumikama, F. R. Xu, A. Yagi, G. X. Zhang, D. S. Ahn, T. Alharbi, H. BabaF. Browne, A. M. Bruce, R. J. Carroll, K. Y. Chae, Zs Dombradi, A. Estrade, N. Fukuda, C. J. Griffin, E. Ideguchi, N. Inabe, T. Isobe, H. Kanaoka, S. Kanaya, I. Kojouharov, F. G. Kondev, T. Kubo, S. Kubono, N. Kurz, I. Kuti, S. Lalkovski, G. J. Lane, E. J. Lee, C. S. Lee, G. Lotay, C. B. Moon, I. Nishizuka, C. R. Niţă, A. Odahara, Z. Patel, Zs Podolyák, O. J. Roberts, H. Sakurai, H. Schaffner, C. M. Shand, H. Suzuki, H. Takeda, S. Terashima, Zs Vajta, J. J. Valiente-Dòbon, Z. Y. Xu

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    Abstract

    A detailed study of the structure of the doubly mid-shell nucleus Dy104166170 has been carried out, following isomeric and β decay. We have measured the yrast band up to the spin-parity Jπ=6+ state, the K=2 γ-vibration band up to the 5+ state, a low-lying negative-parity band based on a 2 state that could be a candidate for the lowest energy octupole vibration state within this nucleus, and a candidate for the Kπ=6+ two quasi-particle isomer. This state was determined to have an excitation energy of 1643.91(23) keV and a half life of 0.99(4) μs, with a reduced hindrance for its decay to the ground-state band an order of magnitude lower than predicted by NpNn systematics. This is interpreted as being due to γ-vibrational mixing from a near degeneracy of the isomer and the 6+ state of the γ band. Furthermore, the parent nucleus 170Tb has been determined to have a half-life of 0.91(−13+18) s with a possible spin-parity of 2.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)404-408
    Number of pages5
    JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
    Volume762
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 10 Nov 2016

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