First identification of large electric monopole strength in well-deformed rare earth nuclei
Abstract
Excited states in the well-deformed rare earth isotopes 154Sm and 166Er were populated via "safe" Coulomb excitation at the Munich MLL Tandem accelerator. Conversion electrons were registered in a cooled Si(Li) detector in conjunction with a Mini-Orange spectrometer. For the first excited 0+ state in 154Sm at 1099 keV a large value of the monopole strength for the transition to the ground state of ρ2(E0) = 96(42)ṡ10-3 could be extracted. This confirms the interpretation of the lowest excited 0+ state in 154Sm as the collective β-vibrational excitation of the ground state. In 166Er the measured large electric monopole strength of ρ2(E0) = 127(60)ṡ10-3 clearly identifies the 04+ state at 1934 keV to be the β-vibrational excitation of the ground state.
- Publication:
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Capture Gamma-ray Spectroscopy and Related Topics
- Pub Date:
- January 2009
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.3087080
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0802.2514
- Bibcode:
- 2009AIPC.1090..539W
- Keywords:
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- 29.30.Kv;
- 71.20.Eh;
- 27.70.+q;
- X- and gamma-ray spectroscopy;
- Rare earth metals and alloys;
- 150<
- =A<
- =189;
- Nuclear Experiment
- E-Print:
- submitted to Physics Letters B