Backbending in the pear-shaped 223(90)Th nucleus: Evidence of a high-spin octupole to quadrupole shape transition in the actinides
Maquart, G., Augey, L., Chaix, L., Companis, I., Ducoin, C., Dudouet, J., . . . Uusitalo, J. (2017). Backbending in the pear-shaped 223(90)Th nucleus: Evidence of a high-spin octupole to quadrupole shape transition in the actinides. Physical Review C, 95 (3), 034304. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.95.034304
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Gall, B. |
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Relatively neutron-rich thorium isotopes lie at the heart of a nuclear region of nuclei exhibiting octupole
correlation effects. The detailed level structure of 223Th has been investigated in measurements of γ radiation
following the fusion-evaporation channel of the 208Pb(18O ,3n)
223Th reaction at 85 MeV beam energy. The level
structure has been extended up to spin 49/2, and 33 new γ rays have been added using triple-γ coincidence
data. The spins and parities of the newly observed states have been confirmed by angular distribution ratios. In
addition to the two known yrast bands based on a K = 5/2 configuration, a non-yrast band has been established
up to spin 35/2. We interpret this new structure as based on the same configuration as the yrast band in 221Th
having dominant K = 1/2 contribution. At the highest spin a backbending occurs around a rotational frequency
of ¯hω = 0.23 MeV, very close to the one predicted in 222Th, where a sharp transition to a reflection-symmetric
shape is expected.
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