Microscopic calculation of cross sections for the reactions 12C(p, 2p) and 16O(p, 2p): U. Wille and R. Lipperheide Nucl. Phys. A189 (1972) 113

Isomeric states of ⁶⁹Se were produced via the heavy-ion compound-nucleus process and from the positon decay of ⁶⁹Br, the former producing a high-spin state and the latter preferentially populating a low-spin state. Ge(Li) detectors as well as scintillation counting showed that the high-spin state decays with T_{$\text{1}\text{2}$} = 14.0 ± 1.0 min to levels in ⁶⁹As, giving rise to γ-rays of 116, 166 and 282 keV. The low-spin state decays predominantly to a state giving rise to a 145 keV γ-ray with T_{$\text{1}\text{2}$} = 1.8 ± 0.2 min. The beta end-point energy of both isomers is 5.2 ± 0.2 MeV. It is deduced that the high-spin state, assigned J^π = $\text{9}\text{2}$⁺, is the ground state; the isomeric state had J^π = $\text{3}\text{2}$^?. The angular momentum inversion as compared to neutron-excess Se isotopes is attributed to Coriolis coupling to a deformed core as described by Malik and Scholz.