Abstract
Several experiments were conducted at the 10 MV Van-de-Graaff tandem accelerator at the Institute of Nuclear Physics, Cologne, to detect proton emission from the isomeric 6457-keV \$\$10^+\$\$10+ state in \$\$^\54\\backslashhbox \Ni\\$\$54Ni. Excitation functions for two fusion--evaporation reactions were measured to maximise the population of the rare two-neutron evaporation channel from a \$\$^\56\\backslashhbox \Ni\\$\$56Ni compound nucleus. The search for delayed proton emission was based on the \$\$^\28\\backslashhbox \Si\\$\$28Si(\$\$^\28\\backslashhbox \Si\,2n\$\$28Si,2n)\$\$^\54\\backslashhbox \Ni\\$\$54Ni reaction at a beam energy of 70 MeV. For this reaction, a cross-section limit for the population of the \$\$10^+\$\$10+ state in \$\$^\54\\backslashhbox \Ni\\$\$54Ni and its proton-decay branch was determined to be \$\$\backslashsigma < 22\$\$$\sigma$<22 nb.
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