Phys.Rev. C 106, 034311 (2022)

S.Kisyov, C.Y.Wu, J.Henderson, A.Gade, K.Kaneko, Y.Sun, N.Shimizu, T.Mizusaki, D.Rhodes, S.Biswas, A.Chester, M.Devlin, P.Farris, A.M.Hill, J.Li, E.Rubino, D.Weisshaar

Structure of ^{126, 128}Xe studied in Coulomb excitation measurements

NUCLEAR REACTIONS ¹⁹⁶Pt, ²⁰⁸Pb(¹²⁶Xe, ¹²⁶Xe'), (¹²⁸Xe, ¹²⁸Xe'), E(¹²⁶Xe)=3.74 MeV/nucleon, E(¹²⁸Xe)=3.81 MeV/nucleon; measured reaction products, Eγ, Iγ, (¹²⁶Xe)γ-coin, (¹²⁸Xe)γ-coin using JANUS array consisting of a pair of segmented double-sided Si detectors for particles, and SeGA array with sixteen 32-fold segmented HPGe detector for γ radiation at the NSCL-MSU facility. ^126,128Xe; deduced levels, J, π, E2 matrix elements, B(E2), static quadrupole moments. GOSIA + GOSIA2 analyses; calculated Potential-energy surfaces (PES) in (Q₀, Q₂) plane. Comparison with PMMU shell model calculations, and with previous experimental results.

doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.106.034311