Abstract
Measurements on both proton and gamma angular distributions and on proton-gamma angular correlations from the reaction suggest that for an incident energy of 2.1 Mev and target thicknesses corresponding to between 200 and 350 kev for these ions, the excited states of are formed with equally populated magnetic substates. A number of gamma-gamma angular correlations have been studied from this reaction; these support the hypothesis of equal substate populations for the 8.87-, 10.94-, and 11.06-Mev states. On this hypothesis, the quadruple angular correlations studied reduce to effective double gamma-gamma correlations which are amenable to much simpler analysis. Using this hypothesis, gamma-gamma angular correlation data have been used in conjunction with the data on the relative gamma-ray de-excitation probabilities of the excited states of to fix the spins and parities of the levels at 8.87, 10.94, and 11.06 Mev as , , and , respectively. In addition the multipole amplitude ratios have been obtained for a number of the transitions involved in the calculations; these are used to calculate inhibition factors expected for transitions in self-conjugate nuclei and these in turn are compared with the theoretical estimates for this inhibition. Where intermediate-coupling shell model predictions are available for the multipole mixtures they are also compared with the experimental results; an anomalously low value of the depth of the central potential used in these calculations is required for agreement.
- Received 15 December 1958
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.114.775
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