DOI

10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.042505

Abstract

Coulomb activation of the four quasiparticle Kπ = 16+ 178Hf isomer (t 1/2 = 31 y) has led to the measurement of a set of Eλ matrix elements coupling the isomer band to the ground band. The present data combined with earlier 178Hf Coulomb excitation data have probed the K components in the wave functions and revealed the onset and saturation of K mixing in low-K bands, whereas the mixing is negligible in the high-K bands. The implications can be applied to other quadrupole-deformed nuclei.

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Article

Publication Date

2-2-2006

Publisher Statement

Copyright © 2006 The American Physical Society. This article first appeared in Physical Review Letters 96, no. 4 (February 2, 2006): 042505: 1-42505: 4. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.042505.

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