1. Improved measurement of the $0_2^+\rightarrow0_1^+$ E0 transition strength for $^{72}$Se using the SPICE spectrometer
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Smallcombe, J., Garnsworthy, A. B., Korten, W., Singh, P., Ali, F. A., Andreoiu, C., Ansari, S., Ball, G. C., Barton, C. J., Bhattacharjee, S. S., Bowry, M., Caballero-Folch, R., Chester, A., Gillespie, S. A., Grinyer, G. F., Hackman, G., Jones, C., Melon, B., Moukaddam, M., Nannini, A., Ruotsalainen, P., Starosta, K., Svensson, C. E., Wadsworth, R., and Williams, J.
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FOS: Physical sciences ,Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) ,Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
The selenium isotopes lie at the heart of a tumultuous region of the nuclear chart where shape coexistence effects grapple with neutron-proton pairing correlations, triaxiality, and the impending proton dripline. In this work a study of $^{72}$Se by internal conversion electron and $\gamma$-ray spectroscopy was undertaken with the SPICE and TIGRESS arrays. New measurements of the branching ratio and lifetime of the $0_2^+$ state were performed yielding a determination of $\rho^2(E0;0_2^+{\rightarrow}0_1^+)=29(3)$ milliunits. two state mixing calculations were performed that highlighted the importance of interpretation of such $E0$ strength values in the context of shape-coexistence.
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- 2022
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