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Nuclear Physics A

Volume 775, Issues 3–4, 4 September 2006, Pages 153-174
Nuclear Physics A

High spin spectroscopy of 137La

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Abstract

We have studied the high spin states in the N=80 137La nucleus by in-beam γ-spectroscopic techniques following the reaction 130Te(11B, 4n)137La at Ebeam=52 MeV using an array, consisting of 8 Compton-suppressed Clover germanium detectors. Forty five new γ rays have been assigned to 137La on the basis of γ ray singles, γγ doubles and γγγ triples coincidence data. Thirty eight new levels have been proposed and the level scheme of 137La has been extended above the known 360 ns 192 isomer up to an excitation energy of 6 MeV and spin 392. The spin-parity assignments for most of the newly proposed levels have been made using the deduced directional correlation orientation and polarisation information for the de-exciting transitions. The new scheme consists, among others, two decay sequences having states with alternating parity connected by E1 transitions. An attempt has been made to understand these interesting structure by a modest shell model calculation.

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    Visiting UGC Teacher Fellow, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India.

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    Present address: Department of Physics, University of York, Heslington, York, UK.

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