Abstract
The effects of Coulomb impurities on the inhibition rule of Morpurgo for , transitions in light (), self-conjugate nuclei are discussed and a comparison is made between Morpurgo's rule and the experimentally known transition strengths. An upper limit to the average inhibition of ∼10 is indicated by the experimental evidence. There are no known , transitions in light, self-conjugate nuclei with strengths greater than 0.1 Weisskopf unit. The work of Morpurgo is shown to lead to -dependent lower limits of the order of Weisskopf units for the matrix elements of , transitions in self-conjugate nuclei. These limits are invoked to assign isotopic spin to several levels in , , and .
- Received 22 September 1958
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.113.595
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