Evidence for the existence of two-phonon collective excitations in deformed nuclei

11 February 1991

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

Vol. 66 (6) , 691-694
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.66.691

Abstract

For the first time, definite evidence for the existence of two-phonon collective states in deformed nuclei has been established through the measurement of the absolute transition rate for the decay of the double-γ

K^{π}

4^{+}

vibration in

{}^{168}{Er}

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