Mirror-symmetry structure ofnuclei studied through strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review C
- Vol. 59 (1) , 90-100
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.59.90
Abstract
Gamow-Teller (GT) transitions and transitions from or to the ground states are analogous in the pair of mirror nuclei, if the excited states hold the mirror-symmetry properties. In order to study the mirror-symmetry structure of the mirror nuclei and experimental data on GT transition strengths obtained from decay and from a good-resolution reaction at 150 MeV/nucleon and 0° have been compared with transition strengths obtained from decay in and reaction. Good overall correspondence of transitions is observed for states up to nearly 9 MeV in excitation energy, where the particle-decay channel becomes important. The difference of excitation energies of analog states in the mirror nuclei are about 250 keV at this excitation energy. From a comparison of and strengths of the analogous transitions, the contribution of the isoscalar and the orbital terms in the operator is found to become prominent in weak transitions.
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