A beta-decay study of Cu-77 has been performed at the ISOLDE mass separator with the aim to deduce its beta-decay properties and to obtain spectroscopic information on Zn-77. Neutron-rich copper isotopes were produced by means of proton- or neutron-induced fission reactions on U-238. After the production, Cu-77 was selectively laser ionized, mass separated and sent to different detection systems where beta-gamma and beta-n coincidence data were collected. We report on the deduced half-live, decay scheme, and possible spin assignment of 77Cu.
@article{arxiv.0909.0152,
title = {beta-decay study of Cu-77},
author = {N. Patronis and H. De Witte and M. Gorska and M. Huyse and K. Kruglov and D. Pauwels and K. Van de Vel and P. Van Duppen and J. Van Roosbroeck and J. -C. Thomas and S. Franchoo and J. Cederkall and V. N. Fedoseyev and H. Fynbo and U. Georg and O. Jonsson and U. Köster and T. Materna and L. Mathieu and O. Serot and L. Weissman and W. F. Mueller and V. I. Mishin and D. Fedorov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.0152},
year = {2009}
}