Abstract

The E0 transition strength in the 22+ → 21+ transitions of 58,60,62Ni have been determined for the first time following a series of measurements at the Australian National University (ANU) and the University of Kentucky (UK). The CAESAR Compton-suppressed HPGe array and the Super-e solenoid at ANU were used to measure the δ(E2/M1) mixing ratio and internal conversion coefficient of each transition following inelastic proton scattering. Level half-lives, δ(E2/M1) mixing ratios and γ-ray branching ratios were measured at UK following inelastic neutron scattering. The new spectroscopic information was used to determine the E0 strengths. These are the first 2+ → 2+ E0 transition strengths measured in nuclei with spherical ground states and the E0 component is found to be unexpectedly large; in fact, these are amongst the largest E0 transition strengths in medium and heavy nuclei reported to date.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-10-2018

Notes/Citation Information

Published in Physics Letters B, v. 779, p. 396-401.

© 2018 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.

This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.01.076

Funding Information

Funded by SCOAP3.

This work was supported in part by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC); the National Science Foundation, Grants No. PHY-1404442 and PHY-1606890; and by the Australian Research Council Discovery Grants DP140102986 and FT100100991. TRIUMF receives funding via a contribution agreement through the National Research Council Canada.

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