Physics Letters B 753 (2016) 182–186
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Decay spectroscopy of
160
Sm: The lightest four-quasiparticle K isomer
Z. Patel
a,b,∗
, Zs. Podolyák
a
, P.M. Walker
a
, P.H. Regan
a,c
, P.-A. Söderström
b
,
H. Watanabe
b,d,e
, E. Ideguchi
f,g
, G.S. Simpson
h
, S. Nishimura
b
, F. Browne
b,j
,
P. Doornenbal
b
, G. Lorusso
b,c
, S. Rice
a,b
, L. Sinclair
b,k
, T. Sumikama
l
, J. Wu
b,i
, Z.Y. Xu
m
,
N. Aoi
f,g
, H. Baba
b
, F.L. Bello Garrote
n
, G. Benzoni
o
, R. Daido
g
, Zs. Dombrádi
v
, Y. Fang
g
,
N. Fukuda
b
, G. Gey
h
, S. Go
p
, A. Gottardo
q
, N. Inabe
b
, T. Isobe
b
, D. Kameda
b
,
K. Kobayashi
r
, M. Kobayashi
p
, T. Komatsubara
s,t
, I. Kojouharov
u
, T. Kubo
b
, N. Kurz
u
,
I. Kuti
v
, Z. Li
w
, H.L. Liu
x
, M. Matsushita
p
, S. Michimasa
p
, C.-B. Moon
y
, H. Nishibata
g
,
I. Nishizuka
l
, A. Odahara
g
, E. ¸Sahin
n
, H. Sakurai
b,m
, H. Schaffner
u
, H. Suzuki
b
,
H. Takeda
b
, M. Tanaka
g
, J. Taprogge
z,aa
, Zs. Vajta
v
, F.R. Xu
i
, A. Yagi
g
, R. Yokoyama
p
a
Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7XH, United Kingdom
b
RIKEN Nishina Center, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
c
National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Middlesex, TW11 0LW, United Kingdom
d
International Research Center for Nuclei and Particles in the Cosmos, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
e
School of Physics and Nuclear Energy Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
f
Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP), Osaka University, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan
g
Department of Physics, Osaka University, Machikaneyama-machi 1-1, Osaka 560-0043 Toyonaka, Japan
h
LPSC, Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1, CNRS/IN2P3, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, F-38026 Grenoble Cedex, France
i
School of Physics and State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
j
School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, University of Brighton, Brighton, BN2 4JG, United Kingdom
k
Department of Physics, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, United Kingdom
l
Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Aoba, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8578, Japan
m
Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
n
Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norw ay
o
INFN Sezione di Milano, I-20133 Milano, Italy
p
Center for Nuclear Study (CNS), University of Tokyo, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
q
Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, I-35020 Legnaro, Italy
r
Department of Physics, Rikkyo University, 3-34-1 Nishi-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171-8501, Japan
s
Research Facility Center for Pure and Applied Science, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan
t
Rare Isotope Science Project, Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon 305-811, Republic of Korea
u
GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany
v
Institute for Nuclear Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 51, Debrecen, H-4001, Hungary
w
School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
x
Department of Applied Physics, School of Science, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
y
Hoseo University, Asan, Chungnam 336-795, Republic of Korea
z
Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC, E-28006 Madrid, Spain
aa
Departamento de Física Teórica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t
Article history:
Received
30 June 2015
Received
in revised form 14 October 2015
Accepted
8 December 2015
Available
online 11 December 2015
Editor:
D.F. Geesaman
The decay of a new four-quasiparticle isomeric state in
160
Sm has been observed using γ -ray
spectroscopy at the RIBF, RIKEN. The four-quasiparticle state is assigned a 2π ⊗2νπ
5
2
−
[532], π
5
2
+
[413],
ν
5
2
−
[523], ν
7
2
+
[633] configuration. The half-life of this (11
+
) state is measured to be 1.8(4) μs. The
(11
+
) isomer decays into a rotational band structure, based on a (6
−
) ν
5
2
−
[523] ⊗ν
7
2
+
[633] bandhead,
consistent with the g
K
− g
R
values. This decays to a (5
−
) two-proton quasiparticle state, which in turn
decays to the ground state band. Potential energy surface and blocked-BCS calculations were performed
in the deformed midshell region around
160
Sm. They reveal a significant influence from β
6
deformation
*
Corresponding author at: Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7XH, United Kingdom.
E-mail
address: z.patel@surrey.ac.uk (Z. Patel).
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