Decay spectroscopy of neutron-rich $^{134}$Sb at the CARIBU facility

ORAL

Abstract

Neutron-rich $^{134}$Sb is one of a few isotopes (together with $^{92}$Rb, $^{96}$Y and $^{142}$Cs) that have a large branching ratio to decay to the ground state via a $0^{-}\rightarrow 0^{+}$ first-forbidden transition. Previous measurements have indicated that 97.5\% of the decays of $^{134}$Sb ground state populate the ground state of $^{134}$Te directly. However, a recent experiment using an ion trap indicated that this number may be lower. In order to confirm the $\beta$-decay branching ratios, an experiment was carried out to measure the decay properties of $^{134}$Sb/$^{134m}$Sb using the X-Array (a highly efficient HPGe clover array) and SATURN (a plastic scintillators and tape-transport system) decay-spectroscopy station at the CARIBU radioactive ion-beam facility at Argonne National Laboratory. Results on the analysis will be presented.

Authors

  • Karolina Kolos

    LLNL

  • Nicholas Scielzo

    LLNL

  • Stephen Padgett

    LLNL

  • E. A. McCutchan

    National Nuclear Data Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, BNL, Brookhaven National Laboratory

  • Alan Mitchell

    The Australian National University, Canberra, ANU

  • Christopher J. Lister

    University of Massachusetts Lowell

  • Patrick Copp

    University of Massachusetts Lowell

  • Jason A. Clark

    ANL

  • M.P. Carpenter

    ANL

  • G. Savard

    ANL, Argonne National Laboratory

  • Shaofei Zhu

    ANL

  • Eric B. Norman

    UC Berkeley

  • Ani Aprahamian

    University of Notre Dame, Univ of Notre Dame

  • K. Siegl

    University of Notre Dame, Univ of Notre Dame

  • Elizabeth Heckmaier

    UC Irvine

  • Scott Marley

    Luisiana State University