Nucl.Phys. A1073, 123442 (2026)

N.Susshma, R.Gowrishankar, S.Deepa, K.Vijay Sai, P.K.Giri, A.Sharma, S.S.Ghugre, Sh.Dar, S.Das, S.Basu, S.Nandi, S.Bhattacharya, S.S.Nayak, G.Mukherjee, S.Bhattacharyya, R.Palit, R.Raut

On the ground state of ¹⁷⁸Ta

NUCLEAR REACTIONS ¹⁷⁵Lu(α, n), E=25 MeV; measured reaction products, Eγ, Iγ; deduced γ-ray energies, J, π, percentage populations of the two known low-lying long-lived states, level T_1/2. Comparison with Quasiparticle Rotor Model and reaction modeling using TALYS. The K130 Room Temperature Cyclotron (RTC) facility at the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC), Kolkata, India.

doi: 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2026.123442