Evidence for octupole collectivity in 172Pt

A. Ertoprak, B. Cederwall, C. Qi, Aktas, M. Doncel, B. Hadinia, R. Liotta, M. Sandzelius, C. Scholey, K. Andgren, T. Bäck, H. Badran, T. Braunroth, T. Calverley, D. M. Cox, D. M. Cullen, Y. D. Fang, E. Ganioğlu, M. Giles, M. B. Gomez HornillosT. Grahn, P. T. Greenlees, J. Hilton, D. Hodge, E. Ideguchi, U. Jakobsson, A. Johnson, P. M. Jones, R. Julin, S. Juutinen, S. Ketelhut, A. Khaplanov, M. Kumar Raju, M. Leino, H. Li, H. Liu, S. Matta, V. Modamio, B. S. Nara Singh, M. Niikura, M. Nyman, I. Özgür, R. D. Page, J. Pakarinen, P. Papadakis, J. Partanen, E. S. Paul, C. M. Petrache, P. Peura, P. Rahkila, P. Ruotsalainen, J. Sarén, J. Sorri, S. Stolze, P. Subramaniam, M. J. Taylor, J. Uusitalo, J. J. Valiente-Dobón, R. Wyss

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Abstract

Excited states in the extremely neutron-deficient nucleus 172Pt were populated via 96Ru (78Kr , 2 p) and 92Mo (83Kr , 3 n) reactions. The level scheme has been extended up to an excitation energy of ≈5MeV and tentative spin-parity assignments up to Iπ= 18 +. Linear polarization and angular distribution measurements were used to determine the electromagnetic E1 character of the dipole transitions connecting the positive-parity ground-state band with an excited side-band, firmly establishing it as a negative-parity band. The lowest member of this negative-parity structure was firmly assigned spin-parity 3 -. In addition, we observed an E3 transition from this 3 - state to the ground state, providing direct evidence for octupole collectivity in 172Pt. Large-scale shell model (LSSM) and total Routhian surface (TRS) calculations have been performed, supporting the interpretation of the 3 - state as a collective octupole-vibrational state.

Original languageEnglish
Article number65
JournalEuropean Physical Journal A
Volume56
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 1 2020

Funding

Open access funding provided by Royal Institute of Technology. The authors thank the staff at the Accelerator Laboratory at the University of Jyv\u00E4skyl\u00E4 for excellent technical support. This work was supported through EURONS (European Commission Contract no. RII3-CT-2004-506065) and by the Academy of Finland under the Finnish Centre of Excellence Programme. Further support for this work has been provided by the Swedish Research Council under Grant no. 621-2014-5558 and the United Kingdom Science and Technology Facilities Council. DMC, MG acknowledge support of the STFC under contract numbers EP/E02551X/1 and ST/L005794/1. E. I., Y. D. F., and M. K. R. acknowledge support from the International Joint Research Promotion Program of Osaka University and JSPS KAKENHI Grant number JP 17H02893. The authors acknowledge the support from the GAMMAPOOL detector collaboration for the loan of JUROGAM detectors.

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