Radioactive Decay of 65-Hour
- 1 May 1955
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 98 (3) , 645-652
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.98.645
Abstract
65-hour was investigated by using (97.7 percent-99.4 percent) that had been bombarded with thermal neutrons for 70 hours. Spectrometer measurements show three beta groups with end-point energies: 1.987, 1.423, and 0.734 Mev; and values: 8.6 [, shape], 7.6 (allowed shape), and 7.7; and four gamma rays with energies: 0.563, 0.693, 1.152, and 1.256 Mev; and intensities: 73 percent, 3.6 percent, 0.75 percent and 0.8 percent. From gamma-gamma and beta-gamma coincidences the excited states of were found at 0.563 and 1.256 Mev. X-gamma coincidences and x-ray critical absorption showed 2.2 percent and 0.8 percent -capture transitions to the ground state and to a 1.152-Mev level in . The values for the transitions to are 13 times smaller than the corresponding transitions to . Annihilation radiation was not observed setting an upper limit of 0.005 percent for positrons. The directional correlation of the 0.693- and the 0.563-Mev gamma rays indicated a 2-2-0 cascade, with the 2-2 transition 91+5 percent quadrupole. The first excited state in was also shown to be 2+ from a measurement of the conversion coefficient of the 0.563-Mev gamma ray. We conclude therefore that the ground state of is 2- (), the first two excited states of are 2+, and the first excited state of may also be 2+.
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