Multipole Deformation of ${}^{238}U$

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19 March 1973

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 30 (12), 571-574
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.30.571

Abstract

Elastic and inelastic scattering of 50-MeV helium ions from

{}^{238}U

was studied with a high-resolution magnetic spectrometer. We measured angular distributions for members of the ground-state rotational band up to the

8^{+}

level. Coupled-channels calculations yield 0.022, 0.060, and -0.012 for the respective deformation parameters

β_{2}

,

β_{4}

, and

β_{6}

for an optical radius of

1.44 A^{\frac{1}{3}}

fm. These values are compared with other experimental results.

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