Abstract
Monoisotopic samples of Mo nuclei, produced in the deuteron-induced fission of U and separated using the IGISOL mass separator coupled to a Penning trap, were used to perform - and -coincidence spectroscopy of Tc. Spin and parity 5/2 for the ground state of Mo, proposed earlier, are supported in the present work. Three new low-energy levels observed in Tc are interpreted as bandheads of the [301], [303], and [431] configurations, respectively. A further three levels observed around 0.4 MeV are interpreted as triaxial excitations. A similar interpretation is proposed for an analogous set of three levels observed in Tc in another decay work. The systematics of these excitations breaks down in Tc, most likely due to a transition from prolate to oblate deformation. An excitation at 745.0 keV in Tc and 850.7 keV in Tc is interpreted as the 7/2[413] configuration. Quasiparticle-rotor model calculations support the proposed interpretations.
3 More- Received 29 August 2012
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.86.044306
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