Level scheme and gamma transitions in ⁵²V

The thermal neutron capture gamma-ray spectrum of ⁵²V has been measured with the curved crystal spectrometer at the DR-3 reactor in Risø. A level scheme is constructed using the energies and intensities of capture gamma lines between 20 keV and 1 MeV. The levels are identified as the low-lying part of the configurations (proton 1f _{3 2})³ (neutron 2p _{1 2}, 2p _{1 2} or 1f _{5 2}), which have been studied by shell model calculations with effective proton-proton and proton- neutron interactions. The spectroscopic factors of the proton groups leading to these states in the ⁵¹V(d, p)⁵²V reaction and the relative reduced M1 transition probabilities between them are satisfactorily reproduced by the calculations.