Morrison, LHadynska-Klek, KPodolyak, ZsGaffney, L PKaya, LBerry, T ABoukhari, ABrunet, MCanavan, RhiannCatherall, RSimpson, Ed2023-09-282023-09-2829 July-2http://hdl.handle.net/1885/300295Data analysis of the Coulomb excitation experiment of the exotic 206Hg nucleus, recently performed at CERN's HIE-ISOLDE facility, needs to account for the contribution to target excitation due to the strongly-present beam contaminant 130Xe. In this paper, the contamination subtraction procedure is presented.The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 654002 + 665779 CERN (COFUND). Support from Science and Technology Facilities Council through grants ST/P005314/1, ST/L005743/1, ST/R004056/1, and ST/J000051/1 (UK), and German BMBF under contract 05P18PKCIA + “Verbundprojekt” 05P2018 are acknowledged.application/pdfen-AU© 2020 The Author(s)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/202010.1088/1742-6596/1643/1/0121462022-08-07Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence