1. $\alpha$ decay of $^{159}$Re and proton emission from $^{155}$Ta
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Page, R.D., Bianco, L., Darby, I.G., Uusitalo, J., Joss, D.T., Grahn, T., Herzberg, R.D., Pakarinen, J., Thomson, J., Eeckhaudt, S., Greenlees, P.T., Jones, P.M., Julin, R., Juutinen, S., Ketelhut, S., Leino, M., Leppanen, A.P., Nyman, M., Rahkila, P., Saren, J., Scholey, C., Steer, A., Hornillos, M.B.G., Al-Khalili, J.S., Cannon, A.J., Stevenson, P.D., Erturk, S., Gall, B., Hadinia, B., Venhart, M., Simpson, J., Département Recherches Subatomiques (DRS-IPHC), and Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg I-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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NUCLEI ,RADIOACTIVITY ,N = 82 ,NEUTRON-DEFICIENT ISOTOPES ,HF-154 ,DRIP-LINE ,23.50.+z, 23.60.+e, 27.70.+q ,[PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex] ,Nuclear Experiment ,LIMIT ,LU-153 - Abstract
The alpha decay of Re-159 has been observed for the first time in reactions of 300 MeV Ni-58 ions with an isotopically enriched Cd-106 target. The Re-159 ions were separated in-flight using the RITU separator and implanted into the GREAT spectrometer. The alpha decay emanates from the proton-emitting pi h(11/2) state in Re-159 with an energy of E-alpha=6776 +/- 26 keV and a branching ratio of 7.5 +/- 3.5%. This alpha decay populates a state in the closed neutron shell nucleus Ta-155, which decays by emitting 1444 +/- 15 keV protons with a half-life of 2.9(-1.1)(+1.5) ms. These values are consistent with the emission of the proton from a pi h(11/2) orbital. These results fit in with the systematics of proton and alpha-particle separation energies in the region, but disagree with the previously reported decay properties of Ta-155
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- 2007