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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