The high-spin states of the nucleus 64Ge have been investigated using the GASP and the EUROBALL arrays of high-purity germanium detectors. In order to achieve the required experimental sensitivity, special selecting devices were used, namely a highly efficient array of liquid scintillators to detect neutrons and the ISIS Si-ball to detect light charged particles, which has been developed in the present work. A detailed decay scheme for 64Ge has been deduced, assigning spins and parities to the levels through a Directional Correlation from Oriented states analysis, an Angular Distribution analysis and a Polarization Correlation from Oriented states analysis. The character of an intense 1665 keV transition, previously reported as a stretched electric dipole with a small multipole mixing ratio, has been established as an electric dipole with a large multipole mixing ratio. The electric dipole strength has been measured using EUROBALL coupled to an early implementation of the EUCLIDES Si-ball and with the Koln plunger device, allowing an experimental estimate of the isospin mixing probability in 64Ge.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:341378 |
| Date | January 2001 |
| Creators | Farnea, Enrico |
| Publisher | University of Surrey |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Source | http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/844488/ |
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