First observation of the π0h11/2-ν0h9/2 partner orbital configuration in the odd-odd i 138 nucleus

B. Moon, A. Gargano, H. Naïdja, C. B. Moon, A. Odahara, R. Lozeva, S. Nishimura, C. Yuan, F. Browne, P. Doornenbal, G. Lorusso, Z. Patel, S. Rice, M. Si, L. Sinclair, P. A. Söderström, T. Sumikama, H. Watanabe, J. Wu, Z. Y. XuA. Yagi, D. S. Ahn, H. Baba, F. L. Bello Garrote, R. Daido, J. M. Daugas, F. Didierjean, Y. Fang, N. Fukuda, B. Hong, E. Ideguchi, N. Inabe, T. Ishigaki, T. Isobe, H. S. Jung, D. Kameda, I. Kojouharov, T. Komatsubara, T. Kubo, Y. K. Kwon, C. S. Lee, P. Lee, S. Morimoto, D. Murai, M. Niikura, H. Nishibata, I. Nishizuka, H. Sakurai, Y. Shimizu, H. Suzuki, H. Takeda, K. Tshoo, R. Yokoyama

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Abstract

The β-decay scheme of Te138 and the level structure of I138 is reported for the first time. The experiment was performed at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory of RIKEN, as one of the EUROBALL-RIKEN Cluster Array campaigns. Secondary radioactive ions, including Te138 and Sb138, were produced by the in-flight fission of a U238 beam with the energy of 345 MeV per nucleon. From the β decay of Te138, the level scheme of I138 was supplemented with new spin and parity assignments, such as the low-lying negative-parity states and a positive-parity 1+ state. This 1+ state can be interpreted as being associated with the π0h11/2-ν0h9/2 partner orbital configuration populated by the Gamow-Teller transition between a neutron in the 0h9/2 orbital and a proton in the 0h11/2 orbital. Details of the structure of I138 are discussed in terms of the proton-neutron interactions and Gamow-Teller transition strength within the theoretical context of shell-model calculations.

Original languageEnglish
Article number034334
JournalPhysical Review C
Volume105
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022 Mar

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Funding Information:
This work was carried out at the RIBF operated by RIKEN Nishina Center and CNS, University of Tokyo. We acknowledge the EUROBALL Owners Committee for the loan of germanium detectors and the PreSpec Collaboration for the readout electronics of the cluster detectors. Part of the WAS3ABi was supported by the Rare Isotope Science Project (RISP) of the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) and National Research Foundation (NRF) of the Republic of Korea (Grant No. 2013M7A1A1075764). This research was supported by IBS of the Republic of Korea (Grants No. IBS-R031-D1 and No. IBS-R031-Y1), NRF of the Republic of Korea (Grants No. 2019R1A6A3A03031564 and No. 2018R1A5A1025563), and JSPS KAKENHI of Japan (Grant No. 25247045). The support from FR-JP LIA is also acknowledged. C.S.L. acknowledges the support from NRF of the Republic of Korea (Grants No. 2017M2A2A6A02071071 and No. 2016R1D1A1A09917463). C.Y. acknowledges the support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 11775316. We thank J. Park in CENS of IBS for his kind English proofreading.

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  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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