K-Mixing and fast decay of a seven-quasiparticle isomer in 179Ta

F. G. Kondev, G. D. Dracoulis, G. J. Lane, I. Ahmad, A. P. Byrne, M. P. Carpenter, P. Chowdhury, S. J. Freeman, N. J. Hammond, R. V F Janssens, T. Kibédi, T. Lauritsen, C. J. Lister, G. Mukherjee, D. Seweryniak, S. K. Tandel

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    Abstract

    A seven-quasiparticle isomer with Kπ = (49/2+) and T1/2 = 53(-7+3) ns has been identified in 179Ta. By comparing its excitation energy with results from multi-quasiparticle calculations that include the effects of blocking and residual nucleon-nucleon interactions, the isomer is assigned the π3(5/2+[402], 7/2+[404], 9/2 -[514]) ⊗ ν4(5/2-[512], 7/2 -[514], 7/2-[503], 9/2+[624]) configuration. The decay of this isomer is found to be unusually fast, a feature that is attributed to a mixing with a specific collective level. The interaction strength is found to be orders of magnitude lower than that observed between interacting collective levels. © Società Italiana di Fisica / Springer-Verlag 2004.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)23-27
    Number of pages4
    JournalEuropean Physical Journal A
    Volume22
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Oct 2004

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