Identification of a proton-emitting isomer in [Formula Presented]

C. R. Bingham, J. C. Batchelder, K. Rykaczewski, K. S. Toth, C. H. Yu, T. N. Ginter, C. J. Gross, R. Grzywacz, M. Karny, S. H. Kim, B. D. MacDonald, J. Mas, J. W. McConnell, P. B. Semmes, J. Szerypo, W. Weintraub, E. F. Zganjar

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Abstract

An isomer of [Formula Presented] was identified by its direct proton radioactivity. It was produced by bombardment of [Formula Presented] with 266-MeV [Formula Presented] from the Holifield Radioactive-Ion Beam Facility, mass separated with a recoil separator and implanted in a double-sided silicon strip detector, which provided signals to correlate each proton decay with a particular implant. The proton energy and half-life of [Formula Presented] were measured to be 1310(10) keV and [Formula Presented] respectively. The half-life of the previously known [Formula Presented] ground state was observed to be [Formula Presented] in agreement with the previously adopted value of 88(10) ms. Comparison of the half-life of [Formula Presented] with WKB barrier-penetration calculations leads to the conclusion that the isomer is a [Formula Presented] proton state. A two-potential approach predicts a half-life of [Formula Presented] which yields an experimental spectroscopic factor of [Formula Presented]

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)R2984-R2988
JournalPhysical Review C - Nuclear Physics
Volume59
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 1999

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