Phys.Rev. C 100, 034309 (2019)

U.Shirwadkar, S.K.Tandel, P.Chowdhury, T.L.Khoo, I.Ahmad, M.P.Carpenter, J.P.Greene, R.V.F.Janssens, F.G.Kondev, T.Lauritsen, C.J.Lister, D.Peterson, D.Seweryniak, X.Wang, S.Zhu

Decay spectroscopy of two-quasiparticle K isomers in ^{246, 248}Cm via inelastic and transfer reactions

NUCLEAR REACTIONS ²⁴⁸Cm(²⁰⁹Bi, ²⁰⁹Bi'), ²⁴⁸Cm(²⁰⁹Bi, X)²⁴⁶Cm, E=1450 MeV from ATLAS-ANL accelerator facility, with bursts between 1 μs to 8 s; measured Eγ, Iγ, γγ-coin, half-lives of isomers in ²⁴⁶Cm and ²⁴⁸Cm by γ(t) using Gammasphere array. ^246,248Cm; deduced levels, J, π, K-isomers, two-quasineutron Nilsson configurations, reduced K hindrances, persistence of a deformed subshell gap at N=152 near Z≈100 from systematics of Kπ=8-, two-quasineutron isomeric states in N=150, Z=94-102 even-even nuclei.

doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.100.034309