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Gamma-Rays from Mg26

John E. May* and Bruce P. Foster

  • Sloane Physics Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

  • *Now at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey.

Phys. Rev. 90, 243 – Published 15 April, 1953

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.90.243

Abstract

The energies of the gamma-rays found in coincidence with the protons of the Na23(α, p)Mg26 reaction have been measured with a NaI(Tl) scintillation counter. The experiments revealed doubt as to the existence of an excited state at 0.4 Mev. A direct transition to ground was found from the 1.83-Mev excited state. Competition between a cascade transition to the 1.83-Mev excited state and a weaker crossover transition to ground was observed for the 2.97-Mev excited state. With the 3.97-Mev excited state were identified a cascade transition to the 1.83-Mev excited state and a probable crossover transition to the ground state. For the decay of the 4.35-Mev excited state, a 1.38-Mev transition to the 2.97-Mev excited state was established. There is also a discussion of possible spin and parity assignments and a few decay schemes proposed by the use of the Weisskopf lifetime formulas.

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