Determination ofE2andE4transition moments inTh232

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1 September 1974

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

Vol. 10 (3) , 1136-1139
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.10.1136

Abstract

In a precision Coulomb excitation experiment, 16.5 and 17.0 MeV

{}^{4}{He}

projectiles were employed to measure the electric quadrupole and hexadecapole transition matrix elements of the ground state rotational band of

{}^{232}{Th}

. The results are

〈 0^{2} ∥ M (E 2) ∥ 2^{+} 〉 = 3.305 \pm 0.030

e b and

〈 0^{2} ∥ M (E 4) ∥ 4^{+} 〉 = 1.36 \pm 0.14

e

b^{2}

. Model-dependent

β_{2}

and

β_{4}

deformation parameters are then extracted.

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