Abstract
The radionuclide has been produced by the reaction with 100-MeV protons. The cross section for the reaction is μb. Radiochemical separations were performed to isolate the thorium fraction from uranium, neptunium, protactinium, and fission products. The half-life was determined to be 37.5 ± 1.5 min by measuring the growth and decay of its daughter, 9.1-min . Electromagnetic isotope separation was also performed on the thorium samples, and although the resultant sources were very weak, evidence for several transitions in the decay was obtained. A partial decay scheme is proposed for that includes excited states in at 2.1, 112.7, 132, and keV. The decay of is compared with the decay of , with emphasis on the bands in and .
[RADIOACTIVITY from , measured , , . deduced levels, . NUCLEAR REACTIONS and , MeV, measured .]
- Received 7 September 1973
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.8.2364
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