EXCITED STATES OF O18 STUDIED BY THE REACTION
- 1 February 1961
- journal article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Physics
- Vol. 39 (2), 276-294
- https://doi.org/10.1139/p61-028
Abstract
Gamma rays from the excited states of O18 at 3.63 and 3.92 Mev have been observed using the reaction [Formula: see text] at an incident O16 energy of 14 Mev. Both states were observed to emit gamma rays to the 1.98-Mev 2+ first excited state of O18. No evidence for crossover transitions was found and in each case the crossover transition was estimated to be [Formula: see text] of the cascade transition. Angular correlations of the gamma rays were obtained and these strongly support an assignment of spin 0 to the 3.63-Mev state and a spin of 2 for the 3.92-Mev state. These assignments have been confirmed by a recent experiment on the O16(H3, p)O18 reaction which gives the assignments 0+ and 2+ for these two states. Thus the states at 3.55, 3.63, and 3.92 Mev form a triplet with assignments 4+, 0+, and 2+ which strongly resembles the vibrational spectra found in heavier nuclei. However, the measured angular correlations of the gamma rays from the 3.92-Mev state show only a small admixture of electric quadrupole in the 1.94-Mev gamma ray with relative amplitude +0.1 ±.1. A lower limit of ~10−12 seconds on the lifetime of the 3.63-Mev state was obtained from the absence of a doppler shift of the 1.65-Mev cascade gamma ray.Keywords
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