Phys.Rev.Lett. 125, 172501 (2020)

F.H.Garcia, C.Andreoiu, G.C.Ball, A.Bell, A.B.Garnsworthy, F.Nowacki, C.M.Petrache, A.Poves, K.Whitmore, F.A.Ali, N.Bernier, S.S.Bhattacharjee, M.Bowry, R.J.Coleman, I.Dillmann, I.Djianto, A.M.Forney, M.Gascoine, G.Hackman, K.G.Leach, A.N.Murphy, C.R.Natzke, B.Olaizola, K.Ortner, E.E.Peters, M.M.Rajabali, K.Raymond, C.E.Svensson, R.Umashankar, J.Williams, D.Yates

Absence of Low-Energy Shape Coexistence in ⁸⁰Ge: The Nonobservation of a Proposed Excited 0⁺₂ Level at 639 keV

RADIOACTIVITY ⁸⁰Ga(β^-); measured decay products, Eγ, Iγ, Eβ, Iβ, γ-γ-coin.; deduced γ-ray energies and intensities, J, π, partial level scheme, lack of evidence for low-energy shape coexistence. Comparison with large-scale shell model calculations.

doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.172501