Eur.Phys.J. A 62, 20 (2026)

S.R.Lesher, A.Aprahamian, K.Lee, C.Fransen, L.McEwan, M.M.Meier, A.Stratman, N.Warr, S.W.Yates

Lifetimes of low-lying levels in ¹⁵⁸Gd

NUCLEAR REACTIONS ¹⁵⁸Gd(n, n'), E=1.4-3.3 MeV; measured reaction products, Eγ, Iγ, γ-γ-coin., TOF; deduced γ-ray energies, J, π, σ(θ), level scheme, bands, level lifetimes, B(E2), B(E1), β-vibration weakly collective. Comparison with systematics, Hartree–Fock–Bogoliubov, and interacting-boson model predictions. The Doppler-shift attenuation method, the University of Kentucky's Accelerator laboratory.

doi: 10.1140/epja/s10050-026-01784-w