Low collectivity of the 21+ state of 212Po

D. Kocheva, G. Rainovski, J. Jolie, N. Pietralla, A. Blazhev, R. Altenkirch, S. Ansari, A. Astier, M. Bast, M. Beckers, Th. Braunroth, M. Cappellazzo, A. Dewald, F. Diel, M. Djongolov, C. Fransen, K. Gladnishki, A. Goldkuhle, A. Hennig, V. KarayonchevJ. M. Keatings, E. Kluge, Th. Kröll, J. Litzinger, K. Moschner, C. Müller-Gatermann, P. Petkov, M. Scheck, Ph. Scholz, T. Schmidt, P. Spagnoletti, C. Stahl, R. Stegmann, A. Stolz, A. Vogt, N. Warr, V. Werner, D. Wölk, J. C. Zamora, K. O. Zell, V. Yu. Ponomarev, P. Van Isacker

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    Abstract

    The lifetime of the 21+ state of 212Po was measured in the 208Pb(12C, 8Be)212Po transfer reaction by γ-ray spectroscopy employing the recoil distance Doppler shift (RDDS) method. The derived absolute B(E2) value of 2.6(3) W.u. indicates a low collectivity and contradicts previous claims of alpha-cluster components in the structure of the 21+ state. It is demonstrated that a consistent description of the properties of the 21+-41+-61+-81+ sequence in 212Po cannot be achieved in the framework of a single-j-shell-model calculation, either. This puzzle is traced to the properties of the seniority-2 configurations in 210Pb and 210Po.
    Original languageEnglish
    Article number044305
    JournalPhysical Review C
    Volume96
    Issue number4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 5 Oct 2017

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