Coulomb excitation of 107Sn
The European Physical Journal A
48
105
(2012)
The radioactive isotope 107Sn was studied using Coulomb excitation at the REX-ISOLDE facility at CERN. This is the lightest odd-Sn nucleus examined using this technique. The reduced transition probability of the lowest-lying
\ensuremath
3
/
2
+
state was measured and is compared to shell-model predictions based on several sets of single-neutron energies relative to 100Sn . Similar to the transition probabilities for the
\ensuremath
2
+
states in the neutron-deficient even-even Sn nuclei, the measured value is underestimated by shell-model calculations. Part of the strength may be recovered by considering the ordering of the
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𝑑
5
/
2
and
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𝑔
7
/
2
single-neutron states.
DOI
10.1140/epja/i2012-12105-7
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