@article{fe53f6f8378e426d9d3845593b4d17e8,
title = "Population and decay of a Kπ=8- two-quasineutron isomer in Pu 244",
abstract = "The decay of a Kπ=8- isomer in Pu244 and the collective band structures populating the isomer were studied using deep inelastic excitations with Ti47 and Pb208 beams, respectively. Precise measurements of M1/E2 branching ratios in the band confirm a 9/2-[734]ν - 7/2+[624]ν configuration assignment for the isomer, validating the systematics of Kπ=8-, two-quasineutron isomers observed in even-Z, N=150 isotones. These isomers around the deformed shell gap at N=152 provide critical benchmarks for theoretical predictions of single-particle energies in this gateway region to superheavy nuclei.",
author = "Hota, \{S. S.\} and Tandel, \{S. K.\} and P. Chowdhury and I. Ahmad and Carpenter, \{M. P.\} and Chiara, \{C. J.\} and Greene, \{J. P.\} and Hoffman, \{C. R.\} and Jackson, \{E. G.\} and Janssens, \{R. V.F.\} and Kay, \{B. P.\} and Khoo, \{T. L.\} and Kondev, \{F. G.\} and S. Lakshmi and S. Lalkovski and T. Lauritsen and Lister, \{C. J.\} and McCutchan, \{E. A.\} and K. Moran and D. Peterson and U. Shirwadkar and D. Seweryniak and I. Stefanescu and Y. Toh and S. Zhu",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 American Physical Society.",
year = "2016",
month = aug,
day = "22",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevC.94.021303",
language = "English",
volume = "94",
journal = "Physical Review C",
issn = "2469-9985",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "2",
}