First Excited State ofS35

A hitherto unreported level in ${}_{}{}^{35}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{S}$ has been found at 1.56 MeV with the ${}_{}{}^{37}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{Cl}(d,\alpha \gamma ){}_{}{}^{35}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{S}$ reaction. Measurements have been made on the decay of this level and of the four previously known levels up to an excitation energy of 3 MeV. A $J^{\pi }$ value of ${\mathrm{½}}^{+}$ for the 1.56-MeV level, as predicted by Glaudemans from shell-model calculations, is not in disagreement with these measurements or those of others. There is convincing evidence, however, that neither the second level at 1.99 MeV nor the third level at 2.35 MeV corresponds to a level predicted in the same calculations to lie at 2.07 MeV with spin and parity of ${\frac{5}{2}}^{+}$.