1. Global properties of K hindrance probed by the gamma decay of the warm rotating W-174 nucleus
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Vandone, V., Leoni, S., Benzoni, G., Blasi, N., Bracco, A., Brambilla, S., Boiano, C., Bottoni, S., Camera, F., Corsi, A., Crespi, F.C.L., Giaz, A., Million, B., Nicolini, R., Pellegri, L., Pullia, A., Wieland, O., Bortolato, D., De Angelis, G., Calore, E., Gottardo, A., Maron, G., R. Napoli, D., Rosso, D., Sahin, E., Valiente-Dobon, J.J., Bazzacco, D., Bellato, M., Farnea, E., Lunardi, S., Menegazzo, R., Mengoni, D., Molini, P., Michelagnoli, C., Montanari, D., Recchia, F., Ur, C.A., Gadea, A., Huyuk, T., Cieplicka, N., Maj, A., Kmiecik, M., Atac, A., Akkoyun, S., Kaskas, A., Soederstroem, P.A., Birkenbach, B., Cederwall, B., J. Coleman-Smith, P., M. Cullen, D., Desesquelles, P., Eberth, J., Gorgen, A., Grebosz, J., Hess, H., Judson, D., Jungclaus, A., Karkour, N., Nolan, P., Obertelli, A., Reiter, P., D. Salsac, M., Stezowski, O., Theisen, C., Matsuo, M., Vigezzi, E., Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon (IPNL), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), and Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)
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ATOMIC-NUCLEI ,[PACS] γ transitions and level energies ,RAYS ,[PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex] ,ISOMERS ,REGION ,FLUCTUATION ,ALIGNMENT ,STATES ,[PACS] Collective levels ,SPECTRA ,[PACS] Collective models ,QUANTUM NUMBER - Abstract
The K hindrance to the gamma decay is studied in the warm rotating W-174 nucleus, focusing on the weakening of the selection rules of the K quantum number with increasing excitation energy. W-174 was populated by the fusion reaction of Ti-50 (at 217 MeV) on a Te-128 target, and its gamma decay was detected by the AGATA Demonstrator array coupled to a BaF2 multiplicity filter at Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro of INFN. A fluctuation analysis of gamma coincidence matrices gives a similar number of low-K and high-K discrete excited bands. The results are compared to simulations of the gamma-decay flow based on a microscopic cranked shell model at finite temperature in which the K mixing is governed by the interplay of Coriolis force with the residual interaction. Agreement between simulations and experiment is obtained only by hindering the E1 decay between low-K and high-K bands by an amount compatible with that determined by spectroscopic studies of K isomers in the same mass region, with a similar trend with excitation energy. The work indicates that K mixing due to temperature effects may play a leading role for the entire body of discrete excited bands, which probes the onset region of K weakening. ©2013 American Physical Society, Support was also given by the Generalitat Valenciana (Spain) under Grant No. PROMETEO/2010/101, by MINECO (Spain) under Grants No. AIC-D-2011-0746 and No. FPA2011-29854, by the Polish National Center of Science (Grant No. 2011/03/B/ST2/01894), and by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Grant No. DPN/N190/AGATA/2009).
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