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.
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Authors
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Karolina Kolos
LLNL
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Nicholas Scielzo
LLNL
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Stephen Padgett
LLNL
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E. A. McCutchan
National Nuclear Data Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, BNL, Brookhaven National Laboratory
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Alan Mitchell
The Australian National University, Canberra, ANU
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Christopher J. Lister
University of Massachusetts Lowell
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Patrick Copp
University of Massachusetts Lowell
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Jason A. Clark
ANL
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M.P. Carpenter
ANL
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G. Savard
ANL, Argonne National Laboratory
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Shaofei Zhu
ANL
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Eric B. Norman
UC Berkeley
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Ani Aprahamian
University of Notre Dame, Univ of Notre Dame
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K. Siegl
University of Notre Dame, Univ of Notre Dame
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Elizabeth Heckmaier
UC Irvine
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Scott Marley
Luisiana State University