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The $T_z$~=~$-\frac{3}{2}$ nucleus ${}^{21}$Mg has been studied by Coulomb excitation on ${}^{196}$Pt and ${}^{110}$Pd targets. A 205.6(1)-keV $\gamma$-ray transition resulting from the Coulomb excitation of the $\frac{5}{2}^+$ ground state…
The B(E2:0_1^+ -> 2_1^+) values of the Ba isotopes (Z=56) exhibit a sharp increase in deformation as the neutron numbers approach the mid-shell value of N=66. This behavior is anomalous because the 2_1^+ level energies are very similar to…
A Coulomb-excitation reorientation-effect measurement using the TIGRESS $\gamma-$ray spectrometer at the TRIUMF/ISAC II facility has permitted the first determination of the $\langle 2^+_1\mid\mid \hat{E2} \mid\mid 2^+_1\rangle$ diagonal…
The influences of triaxial dynamics on the anomalous $E2$ transitional behaviors in the interacting boson model (IBM) have been comprehensively examined without symmetry restrictions. Specifically, different triaxial schemes in the IBM have…
We calculate the B(E2) strength in 68Ni and other nickel isotopes using several theoretical approaches. We find that in 68Ni the gamma transition to the first 2+ state exhausts only a fraction of the total B(E2) strength, which is mainly…
The method of intermediate-energy Coulomb excitation has been widely used to determine absolute B(E2; 0+ -> 2+) quadrupole excitation strengths in exotic nuclei with even numbers of protons and neutrons. Transition rates measured with…
High Frequency electron paramagnetic resonance has been used to observe the magnetic dipole, $\Delta$ M$_s$ = $\pm$ 1, transitions in the $S = 9$ excited state of the single molecule magnet Fe$_8$Br$_8$. A Boltzmann analysis of the measured…
We describe electromagnetic and favored \alpha-transitions to rotational bands in odd-mass nuclei built upon a single particle state with angular momentum projection $\Omega=\frac{1}{2}$ in the region $88 \le Z \le 98$. We use the particle…
A theoretical investigation has been carried out to examine the effects of dynamical triaxility and configuration mixing on the $B(E2)$ anomaly, characterized by $B_{4/2}=B(E2;4_1^+\rightarrow2_1^+)/B(E2;2_1^+\rightarrow0_1^+)<1.0$ and…
The structure of the ground $(2^+)$ and excited $(1^+)$ bound states of the $^8$B and $^8$Li nuclei is studied within the framework of the $\alpha+^3$He($^3$H)+$p(n)$ three-body potential cluster model based on the hyperspherical…
To describe the ground (gr) and excited states of even-even deformed nuclei with the phenomenological model, which takes into account the mixing ground $(gr)$, $0^{+}_{2}(\beta_1)$--, $0^{+}_{3}(\beta_2)$--, $2^{+}_{1}(\gamma_1)$--,…
The emergence of nuclear collectivity near doubly-magic $^{132}$Sn was explored along the stable, even-even $^{124-130}$Te isotopes. Preliminary measurements of the $B(E2;4^{+}_{1}\rightarrow2^{+}_{1})$ transition strengths are reported…
Recently, the very small $B(E2;2_{1}^{+}\rightarrow0_{1}^{+})$ value was found in $^{166}$Os, which is 7(4) W.u. \textbf{and} much smaller than the values of adjacent nuclei $^{168,170}$Os, 74(13) W.u. and 97(9) W.u.. With the help of a new…
The 12B excitation energy spectrum has been obtained from coincidence measurements of the 9Be+7Li -> 2alpha+8Li reaction at E{0}=52 MeV. The decay of the states at excitations between 10 and 16 Mev into alpha$+8Li has been observed for the…
We build the first analytic empirical potential for the most deeply bound $\mbox{Li}_{2}$ state: $b\left(1^{3}\Pi_{u}\right)$. Our potential is based on experimental energy transitions covering $v=0-34$, and very high precision theoretical…
We investigate the effects arising out of the $E1 - E2$ interference in the Coulomb dissociation of $^8$B at beam energies below and around 50 MeV/nucleon. The theory has been formulated within a first order semiclassical scheme of Coulomb…
Bilodeau and Haugan [1], using Infrared laser photodetachment spectroscopy, measured the binding energies (BEs) of the ground state (4Fe9/2) and the excited state (4Fe7/2) of the Os^- ion to be 1.07780(12) eV and 0.553(3) eV, respectively.…
We calculated the contribution of Coulomb energy to the spacing between the ground and first excited state of $^{229}$Th nucleus as a function of the deformation parameter $\delta$. We show that despite the fact that the odd particle is a…
The energy interval between the ground and the P-wave excited states of the recently discovered positronium molecule Ps_2 is evaluated, including the relativistic and the leading logarithmic radiative corrections, E_P-E_S = 0.181 586 7(8)…
The ground-state mass excess of the $T_{z}=-2$ drip-line nucleus $^{22}$Al is measured for the first time to be $18103(10)$ keV using the newly-developed B$\rho$-defined isochronous mass spectrometry method at the cooler storage ring in…