Physics Letters B (May 2019)

New isomers in 125Pd79 and 127Pd81: Competing proton and neutron excitations in neutron-rich palladium nuclides towards the N = 82 shell closure

  • H. Watanabe,
  • H.K. Wang,
  • G. Lorusso,
  • S. Nishimura,
  • Z.Y. Xu,
  • T. Sumikama,
  • P.-A. Söderström,
  • P. Doornenbal,
  • F. Browne,
  • G. Gey,
  • H.S. Jung,
  • J. Taprogge,
  • Zs. Vajta,
  • J. Wu,
  • A. Yagi,
  • H. Baba,
  • G. Benzoni,
  • K.Y. Chae,
  • F.C.L. Crespi,
  • N. Fukuda,
  • R. Gernhäuser,
  • N. Inabe,
  • T. Isobe,
  • A. Jungclaus,
  • D. Kameda,
  • G.D. Kim,
  • Y.K. Kim,
  • I. Kojouharov,
  • F.G. Kondev,
  • T. Kubo,
  • N. Kurz,
  • Y.K. Kwon,
  • G.J. Lane,
  • Z. Li,
  • C.-B. Moon,
  • A. Montaner-Pizá,
  • K. Moschner,
  • F. Naqvi,
  • M. Niikura,
  • H. Nishibata,
  • D. Nishimura,
  • A. Odahara,
  • R. Orlandi,
  • Z. Patel,
  • Zs. Podolyák,
  • H. Sakurai,
  • H. Schaffner,
  • G.S. Simpson,
  • K. Steiger,
  • Y. Sun,
  • H. Suzuki,
  • H. Takeda,
  • A. Wendt,
  • K. Yoshinaga

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 792
pp. 263 – 268

Abstract

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The neutron-rich isotopes of palladium have attracted considerable interest in terms of the evolution of the N=82 neutron shell closure and its influence on the r-process nucleosynthesis. In this Letter, we present the first spectroscopic information on the excited states in 125Pd79 and 127Pd81 studied using the EURICA γ-ray spectrometer, following production via in-flight fission of a high-intensity 238U beam at the RIBF facility. New isomeric states with half-lives of 144(4) ns and 39(6) μs have been assigned spins and parities of (23/2+) and (19/2+) in 125Pd and 127Pd, respectively. The observed level properties are compared to a shell-model calculation, suggesting the competition between proton excitations and neutron excitations in the proton-hole and neutron-hole systems in the vicinity of the doubly magic nucleus 132Sn.