Communications Physics (Aug 2022)

Reassigning the shapes of the 0+ states in the 186Pb nucleus

  • Joonas Ojala,
  • Janne Pakarinen,
  • Philippos Papadakis,
  • Juha Sorri,
  • Mikael Sandzelius,
  • Daniel M. Cox,
  • Kalle Auranen,
  • Hussam Badran,
  • Paul J. Davies,
  • Tuomas Grahn,
  • Paul T. Greenlees,
  • Jack Henderson,
  • Andrej Herzáň,
  • Rolf-Dietmar Herzberg,
  • Joshua Hilton,
  • Ulrika Jakobsson,
  • David G. Jenkins,
  • David T. Joss,
  • Rauno Julin,
  • Sakari Juutinen,
  • Tibor Kibédi,
  • Joonas Konki,
  • Gregory J. Lane,
  • Matti Leino,
  • Jarkko Liimatainen,
  • Christopher G. McPeake,
  • Olavi Neuvonen,
  • Robert D. Page,
  • Edward Parr,
  • Jari Partanen,
  • Pauli Peura,
  • Panu Rahkila,
  • John Revill,
  • Panu Ruotsalainen,
  • Jan Sarén,
  • Catherine Scholey,
  • Sanna Stolze,
  • Juha Uusitalo,
  • Andrew Ward,
  • Robert Wadsworth

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-022-00990-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

Read online

The authors study an interesting phenomena of shape coexistence in 186Pb. In an elegant and well-documented experiment, they confirm the coexistence of the three 0+ states in the 186Pb nucleus and reassign the shapes associated with the excited 0+ states.