Abstract
The β decay of neutron-rich Cu74 has been studied at the Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. By using a high-resolution mass separator a purified Cu74 beam was obtained, thus allowing decay through its isobar chain to stable Ge74 without any decay chain member dominating. A total of 170γ rays were associated with Cu74β decay with 111 placed in the Zn74 level scheme. Updated β feeding intensities and estimated log(ft) values are presented, and new Jπ assignments are proposed using shell model calculations. The progression of simulated total absorption γ-ray spectroscopy (TAGS) based on proposed levels and β-feeding values from previous measurements to this evaluation are presented and demonstrate the need for a TAGS measurements for this and similar decays.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 034309 |
| Journal | Physical Review C |
| Volume | 98 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| State | Published - Sep 10 2018 |
Funding
This work was performed under the support of the US Department of Energy under Contracts No. DE-FG02-96ER41006 and No. DE-SC00144448. Additional support was provided by Polish National Science Center under Contract No. UMO-2015/18/E/ST2/00217, and by the Office of Nuclear Physics, US Department of Energy under Contracts No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 (ORNL), No. DE-FG02-96ER40983 (UTK), No. DE-AC05-06OR23100 (ORAU), and No. DE-AC02-05CH11231 (UC).