@article{0f74ed74f9064a5ea40f54d8f4c19c94,
title = "Population and decay of a Kπ=8- two-quasineutron isomer in Pu 244",
abstract = "The decay of a Kπ=8- isomer in Pu244 and the collective band structures populating the isomer were studied using deep inelastic excitations with Ti47 and Pb208 beams, respectively. Precise measurements of M1/E2 branching ratios in the band confirm a 9/2-[734]ν - 7/2+[624]ν configuration assignment for the isomer, validating the systematics of Kπ=8-, two-quasineutron isomers observed in even-Z, N=150 isotones. These isomers around the deformed shell gap at N=152 provide critical benchmarks for theoretical predictions of single-particle energies in this gateway region to superheavy nuclei.",
author = "Hota, {S. S.} and Tandel, {S. K.} and P. Chowdhury and I. Ahmad and Carpenter, {M. P.} and Chiara, {C. J.} and Greene, {J. P.} and Hoffman, {C. R.} and Jackson, {E. G.} and Janssens, {R. V.F.} and Kay, {B. P.} and Khoo, {T. L.} and Kondev, {F. G.} and S. Lakshmi and S. Lalkovski and T. Lauritsen and Lister, {C. J.} and McCutchan, {E. A.} and K. Moran and D. Peterson and U. Shirwadkar and D. Seweryniak and I. Stefanescu and Y. Toh and S. Zhu",
note = "Funding Information: The trans-plutonium element production facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, supported by the Office of Basic Energy Science, U.S. Department of Energy, is acknowledged for providing enriched isotopic material for the targets. This work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, under Grants No. DE-FG02-94ER40848 and No. DE-FG02-94ER40834, and Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357, and the National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY-1203100. This research used resources of the ATLAS facility at ANL, which is a DOE Office of Science user facility. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 American Physical Society.",
year = "2016",
month = aug,
day = "22",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevC.94.021303",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "94",
journal = "Physical Review C",
issn = "2469-9985",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "2",
}