beta-delayed fission and alpha decay of 196At

V.L. Truesdale, A N Andreyev, Lars Ghys, Mark Huyse, Piet Van Duppen, Simon Sels, Boris Andel, Stanislav Antalic, Anatoly Barzakh, L. Capponi, Thomas Elias Cocolios, X. Derkx, Hilde De Witte, Jytte Elseviers, D. V. Fedorov, Valentin N Fedosseev, F. P. Hessberger, Z. Kalaninova, Köster Ulli, Joseph LaneValentina Liberati, Kara M Lynch, Bruce Marsh, S. Mitsuoka, Y. Nagame, K. Nishio, S. Ota, Dieter Pauwels, Lucia-Ana Popescu, Deyan Radulov, Elisa Rapisarda, Sebastian Rothe, K. Sandhu, Maxim Seliverstov, A.M. Sjödin, Celine Van Beveren, Paul Van den Bergh, Y. Wakabayashi

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    Abstract

    A nuclear-decay spectroscopy study of the neutron-deficient isotope 196At is reported where an isotopically pure beam was produced using the selective Resonance Ionization Laser Ion Source and On-Line Isotope Mass Separator (CERN). The fine-structure alpha decay of 196At allowed the low-energy excited states in the daughter nucleus 192Bi to be investigated. A beta-delayed fission study of 196At was also performed. A mixture of symmetric and asymmetric fission-fragment mass distributions of the daughter isotope 196Po (populated by beta decay of 196At) was deduced based on the measured fission-fragment energies. A bDF probability P_{bDF}(196At) = 9(1) x 10^{-5} was determined.
    Original languageEnglish
    Article number034308
    Pages (from-to)1-11
    Number of pages11
    JournalPhysical Review C
    Volume94
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 8 Sep 2016

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