Monopole-driven shell evolution below the doubly magic nucleus Sn 132 explored with the long-lived isomer in Pd 126

H. Watanabe*, G. Lorusso, S. Nishimura, T. Otsuka, K. Ogawa, Z. Y. Xu, T. Sumikama, P. A. Söderström, P. Doornenbal, Z. Li, F. Browne, G. Gey, H. S. Jung, J. Taprogge, Zs Vajta, J. Wu, A. Yagi, H. Baba, G. Benzoni, K. Y. ChaeF. C.L. Crespi, N. Fukuda, R. Gernhäuser, N. Inabe, T. Isobe, A. Jungclaus, D. Kameda, G. D. Kim, Y. K. Kim, I. Kojouharov, F. G. Kondev, T. Kubo, N. Kurz, Y. K. Kwon, G. J. Lane, C. B. Moon, A. Montaner-Pizá, K. Moschner, F. Naqvi, M. Niikura, H. Nishibata, D. Nishimura, A. Odahara, R. Orlandi, Z. Patel, Zs Podolyák, H. Sakurai, H. Schaffner, G. S. Simpson, K. Steiger, H. Suzuki, H. Takeda, A. Wendt, K. Yoshinaga

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    Abstract

    A new isomer with a half-life of 23.0(8) ms has been identified at 2406 keV in Pd126 and is proposed to have a spin and parity of 10+ with a maximally aligned configuration comprising two neutron holes in the 1h11/2 orbit. In addition to an internal-decay branch through a hindered electric octupole transition, β decay from the long-lived isomer was observed to populate excited states at high spins in Ag126. The smaller energy difference between the 10+ and 7- isomers in Pd126 than in the heavier N=80 isotones can be interpreted as being ascribed to the monopole shift of the 1h11/2 neutron orbit. The effects of the monopole interaction on the evolution of single-neutron energies below Sn132 are discussed in terms of the central and tensor forces.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number042502
    JournalPhysical Review Letters
    Volume113
    Issue number4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 25 Jul 2014

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