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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. Chae
  • F. 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
*Corresponding author for this work

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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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