Excited states in the deformed nucleus 158Gd have been studied in the (p,t) reaction by using the Munich Tandem and Q3D spectrograph. 30 new excited 0+ states (three tentative) have been assigned up to the 4.3 MeV excitation energy. The total number of 34 excited 0+ states (four tentatively assigned) in a deformed nucleus, close to a complete level scheme, offers a new opportunity to test nuclear models and obtain more information on the structure of these special states.
@article{arxiv.1810.12592,
title = {New data on $0^+$ states in $^{158}$Gd},
author = {A. I. Levon and C. Costache and T. Faestermann and R. Hertenberger and A. Ionescu and R. Lica and A. G. Magner and C. Mihai and R. Mihai and C. R. Nita and S. Pascu and K. P. Shevchenko and A. A. Shevchuk and A. Turturica and H. -F. Wirth},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.12592},
year = {2019}
}