1. New isomers in Pd-125(79) and Pd-127(81): Competing proton and neutron excitations in neutron-rich palladium nuclides towards the N=82 shell closure
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Watanabe, H., Wang, H. K., Lorusso, G., Nishimura, S., Xu, Z. Y., Sumikama, T., Soderstrom, P. -A., Doornenbal, P., Browne, F., Gey, G., Jung, H. S., Taprogge, J., Vajta, Zs., Wu, J., Yagi, A., Baba, H., Benzoni, G., Chae, K. Y., Crespi, F. C. L., Fukuda, N., Gernhauser, R., Inabe, N., Isobe, T., Jungclaus, A., Kameda, D., Kim, G. D., Kim, Y. K., Kojouharov, I., Kondev, F. G., Kubo, T., Kurz, N., Kwon, Y. K., Lane, G. J., Lin, Z., Moon, C. -B., Montaner-Piza, A., Moschner, K., Naqvi, F., Niikura, M., Nishibata, H., Nishimura, D., Odahara, A., Orlandi, R., Patel, Z., Podolyak, Zs., Sakurai, H., Schaffner, H., Simpson, G. S., Steiger, K., Sun, Y., Suzuki, H., Takeda, H., Wendt, A., Yoshinaga, K., Watanabe, H., Wang, H. K., Lorusso, G., Nishimura, S., Xu, Z. Y., Sumikama, T., Soderstrom, P. -A., Doornenbal, P., Browne, F., Gey, G., Jung, H. S., Taprogge, J., Vajta, Zs., Wu, J., Yagi, A., Baba, H., Benzoni, G., Chae, K. Y., Crespi, F. C. L., Fukuda, N., Gernhauser, R., Inabe, N., Isobe, T., Jungclaus, A., Kameda, D., Kim, G. D., Kim, Y. K., Kojouharov, I., Kondev, F. G., Kubo, T., Kurz, N., Kwon, Y. K., Lane, G. J., Lin, Z., Moon, C. -B., Montaner-Piza, A., Moschner, K., Naqvi, F., Niikura, M., Nishibata, H., Nishimura, D., Odahara, A., Orlandi, R., Patel, Z., Podolyak, Zs., Sakurai, H., Schaffner, H., Simpson, G. S., Steiger, K., Sun, Y., Suzuki, H., Takeda, H., Wendt, A., and Yoshinaga, K.
- Abstract
The neutron-rich isotopes of palladium have attracted considerable interest in terms of the evolution of the N = 82 neutron shell closure and its influence on the r-process nucleosynthesis. In this Letter, we present the first spectroscopic information on the excited states in Pd-125(79) and Pd-127(81) studied using the EURICA gamma-ray spectrometer, following production via in-flight fission of a high-intensity U-238 beam at the RIBF facility. New isomeric states with half-lives of 144(4) ns and 39(6) mu s have been assigned spins and parities of (23/2(+)) and (19/2(+)) in Pd-125 and Pd-127, respectively. The observed level properties are compared to a shell-model calculation, suggesting the competition between proton excitations and neutron excitations in the proton-hole and neutron-hole systems in the vicinity of the doubly magic nucleus Sn-132. (C) 2019 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.
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- 2019