1. Observation of isomeric decays in the $r$-Process waiting-point nucleus $^{130}Cd_{82}$
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Jungclaus, A., Caceres, L., Gorska, M., Pfützner, M., Piétri, S., Werner-Malento, E., Grawe, H., Langanke, K., Martínez-Pinedo, G., Nowacki, F., Poves, A., Cuenca-García, J.J., Rudolph, D., Podolyak, Z., H. Regan, P., Detistov, P., Lalkovski, S., Modamio, V., Walker, J., Bednarczyk, P., Doornenbal, P., Geissel, H., Gerl, J., Grebosz, J., Kojouharov, I., Kurz, N., Prokopowicz, W., Schaffner, H., J. Wollersheim, H., Andgren, K., Benlliure, J., Benzoni, G., M. Bruce, A., Casarejos, E., Cederwall, B., C. L. Crespi, F., Hadinia, B., Hellström, M., Hoischen, R., Ilie, G., Jolie, J., Khaplanov, A., Kmiecik, M., Kumar, R., Maj, A., Mandal, S., Montes, F., Myalski, S., Simpson, G.S., J. Steer, S., Tashenov, S., Wieland, O., Helmholtz zentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH (GSI), Département Recherches Subatomiques (DRS-IPHC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg I-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
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21.60.Cs, 23.20.Lv, 26.30.+k, 27.60.+j ,Nuclear Theory ,Physics::Atomic and Molecular Clusters ,[PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex] ,Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
The gamma decay of excited states in the waiting-point nucleus (130)Cd(82) has been observed for the first time. An 8(+) two-quasiparticle isomer has been populated both in the fragmentation of a (136)Xe beam as well as in projectile fission of 238U, making (130)Cd the most neutron-rich N = 82 isotone for which information about excited states is available. The results, interpreted using state-of-the-art nuclear shell-model calculations, show no evidence of an N = 82 shell quenching at Z = 48. They allow us to follow nuclear isomerism throughout a full major neutron shell from (98)Cd(50) to (130)Cd(82) and reveal, in comparison with (76)Ni(48) one major proton shell below, an apparently abnormal scaling of nuclear two-body interactions.
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- 2007