1. Low collectivity of the 2(1)(+) state of Po-212
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Kocheva, D., Rainovski, G., Jolie, J., Pietralla, N., Blazhev, A., Altenkirch, R., Ansari, S., Astier, A., Bast, M., Beckers, M., Braunroth, Th., Cappellazzo, M., Dewald, A., Diel, F., Djongolov, M., Fransen, C., Gladnishki, K., Goldkuhle, A., Hennig, A., Karayonchev, V., Keatings, J. M., Kluge, E., Kroell, Th., Litzinger, J., Moschner, K., Mueller-Gatermann, C., Petkov, P., Scheck, M., Scholz, Ph., Schmidt, T., Spagnoletti, P., Stahl, C., Stegmann, R., Stolz, A., Vogt, A., Warr, N., Werner, V., Woelk, D., Zamora, J. C., Zell, K. O., Ponomarev, V. Yu., Van Isacker, P., Kocheva, D., Rainovski, G., Jolie, J., Pietralla, N., Blazhev, A., Altenkirch, R., Ansari, S., Astier, A., Bast, M., Beckers, M., Braunroth, Th., Cappellazzo, M., Dewald, A., Diel, F., Djongolov, M., Fransen, C., Gladnishki, K., Goldkuhle, A., Hennig, A., Karayonchev, V., Keatings, J. M., Kluge, E., Kroell, Th., Litzinger, J., Moschner, K., Mueller-Gatermann, C., Petkov, P., Scheck, M., Scholz, Ph., Schmidt, T., Spagnoletti, P., Stahl, C., Stegmann, R., Stolz, A., Vogt, A., Warr, N., Werner, V., Woelk, D., Zamora, J. C., Zell, K. O., Ponomarev, V. Yu., and Van Isacker, P.
- Abstract
The lifetime of the 2(1)(+) state of Po-212 was measured in the Pb-208(C-12, Be-8)Po-212 transfer reaction by gamma-ray spectroscopy employing the recoil distance Doppler shift (RDDS) method. The derived absolute B(E2) value of 2.6(3) W.u. indicates a low collectivity and contradicts previous claims of alpha-cluster components in the structure of the 2(1)(+) state. It is demonstrated that a consistent description of the properties of the 2(1)(+)-4(1)(+)-6(1)(+)-8(1)(+) sequence in Po-212 cannot be achieved in the framework of a single-j shell-model calculation, either. This puzzle is traced to the properties of the seniority-2 configurations in Pb-210 and Po-210.
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- 2017