Physics Letters B (Jan 2015)

High-spin states beyond the proton drip-line: Quasiparticle alignments in 113Cs

  • P.T. Wady,
  • J.F. Smith,
  • B. Hadinia,
  • D.M. Cullen,
  • S.J. Freeman,
  • I.G. Darby,
  • S. Eeckhaudt,
  • T. Grahn,
  • P.T. Greenlees,
  • P.M. Jones,
  • R. Julin,
  • S. Juutinen,
  • H. Kettunen,
  • M. Leino,
  • A.-P. Leppänen,
  • B.M. McGuirk,
  • P. Nieminen,
  • M. Nyman,
  • R.D. Page,
  • J. Pakarinen,
  • E.S. Paul,
  • P. Rahkila,
  • S.V. Rigby,
  • C. Scholey,
  • J. Uusitalo,
  • R. Wadsworth

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 740
pp. 243 – 249

Abstract

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Excited states have been studied in the deformed proton emitter 113Cs. Gamma-ray transitions have been unambiguously assigned to 113Cs by correlation with its characteristic proton decay, using the method of recoil-decay tagging. Two previously identified rotational bands have been observed and extended to tentative spins of 45/2 and 51/2ħ, with excitation energies over 8 MeV above the lowest state. These are the highest angular momenta and excitation energies observed to date in any nucleus beyond the proton drip-line. Transitions in the bands have been rearranged compared to previous work. A study of aligned angular momenta, in comparison to the predictions of Woods–Saxon cranking calculations, is consistent with the most intense band being based on the πg7/2[422]3/2+ configuration, which would contradict the earlier πh11/2 assignment, and with the second band being based on the πd5/2[420]1/2+ configuration. The data suggest that the band based upon the πh11/2 configuration is not observed. Keywords: Proton decay, Recoil-decay tagging, Gamma-ray spectroscopy, High-spin states, Quasiparticle alignments