Phys.Rev. C 98, 041302 (2018)

W.Witt, V.Werner, N.Pietralla, M.Albers, A.D.Ayangeakaa, B.Bucher, M.P.Carpenter, D.Cline, H.M.David, A.Hayes, C.Hoffman, R.V.F.Janssens, B.P.Kay, F.G.Kondev, W.Korten, T.Lauritsen, O.Moller, G.Rainovski, G.Savard, D.Seweryniak, J.Smith, R.Stegmann, S.Zhu, C.Y.Wu

Sub-shell closure and shape coexistence in the transitional nucleus ⁹⁸Zr

NUCLEAR REACTIONS ¹⁹⁶Pt(⁹⁸Zr, ⁹⁸Zr'), E=464 MeV from CARIBU source at ATLAS-ANL facility; measured recoils, Eγ, Iγ, (recoil)γ-coin using CHICO2 array of segmented parallel-plate avalanche counter (PPAC) for recoil detection, and GRETINA array of segmented HPGe detectors for γ detection. Coulomb excitation. ⁹⁸Zr; deduced levels, upper limit of B(E2) for the first 2+ state. Comparison with shell model and Monte-Carlo shell model calculations, and with previous experimental values. Systematics of B(E2) values for the first 2+ states in ^{90,92,94,96,98,100,102,104,106}Zr.

doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.98.041302