Abstract
The nuclide has been produced in the reaction and its decay properties investigated. The -decay branch of 1.52 ± 0.13-sec has been measured to be (90.4±0.6)% with spontaneous-fission decay the remainder [(9.6±0.6)%]. Measured -particle energies and intensities (% per decay) are 9.041±0.014 MeV (48±5), 9.074±0.014 MeV (25±3), and 9.120±0.017 MeV (17±3). Characteristic series x rays of element 103 were observed in coincidence with these -particle groups, thus providing elemental identification. The -decay daughter was observed in a direct time-correlated genetic linkage, thus providing the mass number assignment. The absence of characteristic - or -series x rays of element 104 in time coincidence with, but preceding, spontaneous-fission-decay events, has allowed an upper limit of 2.5% to be placed on the electron-capture decay branch of to the elusive nuclide 0.1-sec . If is a spontaneous-fission emitter with a half-life ≤ 100 μsec, as some predictions would indicate, then the electron-capture decay branch of is μ0.2%.
RADIOACTIVITY [from reaction]; measured , , , , , , , , , ; coin. and coin. time correlation; deduced levels, , , hindrance, SF hindrance, atomic number mass number. Enriched target.
- Received 9 May 1977
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.16.1146
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