Decay of a three-quasiparticle isomer in the neutron-rich nucleus 183Ta

Palalani, Nyaladzi; Lane, Gregory; Dracoulis, George; Kondev, Filip G; Byrne, Aidan; Carpenter, M P; Chiara, C J; Chowdhury, P; Hughes, Richard; Janssens, R V F; Lauritsen, T; Lister, C J; McCutchan, E A; Seweryniak, D; Stefanescu, I; Watanabe, H; Zhu, S.

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Decay of a three-quasiparticle isomer in the neutron-rich nucleus 183Ta

Date

2012

Authors

Palalani, Nyaladzi

Lane, Gregory

Dracoulis, George

Kondev, Filip G

Byrne, Aidan

Carpenter, M P

Chiara, C J

Chowdhury, P

Hughes, Richard

Janssens, R V F

Publisher

EPJ Web of Conferences

Abstract

Excited states in neutron-rich tantalum isotopes have been studied with deep-inelastic reactions using 136Xe ions incident on a 186W target. New transitions observed below the τ=1.3 μs isomer in 183Ta have enabled the establishment of its energy and put