102Ag: In-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy

Gamma-rays associated with the decay of states in the ¹⁰²Ag nucleus have been identified, sixty-four of them for the first time following the reaction ⁵⁰Cr(⁵⁶Fe, 3pn)¹⁰²Ag at a mean energy of 195 MeV. Identification was made using an array of nine escape-suppressed Ge detectors coupled to the Daresbury Recoil Separator. Excited states in ¹⁰²Ag were identified using recoil-gamma and γγ coincidences. From the intensity balance and the coincidence data, a new set of levels was identified which may be interpreted as reminiscent of “three-quasiparticle” bands in neighboring odd-mass nuclei and similar to a four-quasi-particle band observed in ¹⁰⁶Ag.