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Two-phonon character of the lowest electric dipole excitation in Nd-142 and in other nuclei near shell closures

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Phys. Rev. C, 57 (2): 577-582 (February 1998)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.57.577

Abstract

A resonant inelastic proton scattering experiment was carried out to investigate the gamma decay of the lowest lying 1(-) state in the N = 82 nucleus Nd-142. A very high sensitivity for the detection of the gamma rays was achieved by combining the Osiris Cube array with a Euroball Cluster detector. The observed gamma decay of the dipole excitation is a direct proof of the dominant two-phonon character of the lowest 1(-) state in this nucleus. A survey of the branching ratios in the magic neutron number N=82 region and the energy systematics of candidates for two phonon 1(-) states in other nuclei in the vicinity of various shell closures point to a high degree of harmonicity of the (2(+)X3(-)) coupling.

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