Abstract
Five isotones have been produced in two fusion-fission reactions and their rays studied with the Euroball array. The high-spin states of La have been identified, while the high-spin yrast and near-to-yrast structures of the four others have been greatly extended. From angular correlation analysis, spin values have been assigned to some states of Xe and Cs. Several cascades involving rays of La have been found to be delayed; they deexcite an isomeric state with ns located at 1800 keV excitation energy. The excited states of these five isotones are expected to be due to various proton excitations involving the three high- subshells located above the shell closure. This is confirmed by the results of shell-model calculations performed in this work. In addition, high-spin states corresponding to the excitation of the neutron core have been unambiguously identified in Xe, Cs, and Ba.
11 More- Received 25 April 2012
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.85.064316
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