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Orbital electron capture and β+ decay of H-like 140Pr ions

  • J. Kurcewicz*
  • , Yu A. Litvinov
  • , F. Bosch
  • , H. Geissel
  • , Z. Patyk
  • , N. Winckler
  • , L. Batist
  • , K. Beckert
  • , P. Beller
  • , D. Boutin
  • , C. Brandau
  • , L. Chen
  • , C. Dimopoulou
  • , T. Faestermann
  • , L. Grigorenko
  • , P. Kienle
  • , R. Knobel
  • , C. Kozhuharov
  • , S. A. Litvinov
  • , L. Maier
  • M. Mazzocco, F. Montes, G. Münzenberg, A. Musumarra, C. Nociforo, F. Nolden, M. Pfützner, W. Plass, C. Scheidenberger, M. Steck, B. Sun, H. Weick, M. Winkler
*Corresponding author for this work
  • GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research
  • University of Warsaw
  • Justus Liebig University Giessen
  • Andrzej Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies
  • Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI)
  • Technical University of Munich
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics

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Abstract

For the first time the electron capture and β+ decay rates of H-like 140Pr ions have been measured at the FRS-ESR facility by using the Schottky noise technique. The H-like 140Pr58+ decay rate was found to be larger by a factor of 1.5 than in the case of neutral atom. This non-intuitive result can be explained by taking into account hyperfine splitting of nuclear levels in the decaying nuclei and the conservation law of the total angular momentum of the system.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)501-506
Number of pages6
JournalActa Physica Polonica B
Volume39
Issue number2
StatePublished - Feb 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event30th Mazurian Lakes Conference on Physics - Nuclear Physics and the Fundamental Processes - Piaski, Poland
Duration: 2 Sep 2007 → 9 Sep 2007

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