Abstract

The level structure of 134Xe was studied with the inelastic neutron scattering reaction followed by γ-ray detection. A number of level lifetimes were determined for the first time with the Doppler-shift attenuation method and the low-lying excited states were characterized. From this new spectroscopic information, the third excited state, a 0+ level which had only been observed in a previous inelastic neutron scattering study, was verified. Reduced transition probabilities were calculated; comparisons were drawn with a vibrational description of the nucleus and found lacking. The 3 octupole phonon has been confirmed, and the complete negative-parity multiplet resulting from the ν(1h11/22d3/2) configuration has also been tentatively identified for the first time in the N = 80 isotones.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-19-2017

Notes/Citation Information

Published in Physical Review C, v. 96, issue 1, 014313, p. 1-7.

©2017 American Physical Society

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.96.014313

Funding Information

This material is based upon work supported by the US National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY-1606890.

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