E2 and E4 Transition Moments and Equilibrium Deformations in the Actinide Nuclei
E2 and E4 Transition Moments and Equilibrium Deformations in the Actinide Nuclei
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevc.8.1466
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发表时间:
1973-10
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
C. Bemis;F. McGowan;J. Ford;W. T. Milner;P. Stelson;R. L. Robinson
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作者:
C. Bemis;F. McGowan;J. Ford;W. T. Milner;P. Stelson;R. L. Robinson
Precision Coulomb-excitation experiments using $^{4}\mathrm{He}$ ions have been performed in the actinide region ($230\ensuremath{\le}A\ensuremath{\le}248$) by the observation of elastic and inelastically scattered projectiles using a split-pole magnetic spectrometer equipped with a position-sensitive proportional detector. 12 even-$A$ targets from $^{230}\mathrm{Th}$ to $^{248}\mathrm{Cm}$ have been investigated and the reduced quadrupole matrix element, $〈2\ensuremath{\parallel}\mathfrak{M}(E2)\ensuremath{\parallel}0〉$, and the reduced hexadecapole matrix element, $〈4\ensuremath{\parallel}\mathfrak{M}(E4)\ensuremath{\parallel}0〉$, have been determined from the experimental excitation probabilities of the ${0}^{+}$, ${2}^{+}$, and ${4}^{+}$ states in the ground-state rotational bands. The values of $B(E4,0\ensuremath{\rightarrow}4)$ range from 167 single-particle units for $^{234}\mathrm{U}$ to essentially zero single-particle units for $^{244,246,248}\mathrm{Cm}$. Model-dependent deformation parameters, ${\ensuremath{\beta}}_{20}$ and ${\ensuremath{\beta}}_{40}$, are extracted from the measured $E2$ and $E4$ transition moments for distributions of nuclear charge represented by deformed Fermi distributions and by a deformed homogeneous distribution.