Phys.Rev. C23, 240 (1981)

T.J.Humanic, J.X.Saladin, J.G.Alessi, A.Hussein

Experimental Determination of the Intrinsic Ground State Shapes of ¹⁶²Er and ¹⁶⁴Er from Coulomb Excitation Studies

NUCLEAR REACTIONS ^162,164Er(α, α'), E=12 MeV; ^162,164Er(¹⁶O, ¹⁶O'), E=48 MeV; measured αγ-, ¹⁶Oγ-coin, Coulomb excitation. ^162,164Er level deduced sign of quadrupole moment, intrinsic shape. Enriched metal target. Semiclassical coupled-channel analysis.

doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.23.240