Department of Physics, Queen''s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6;Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories, Chalk River, Ontario, Canada KOJ 1JO
Abstract:
162 MeV 40Ca ions have been used to Coulomb excite the ground-state band of 159Tb up to spin . Lifetimes for levels up to spin have been determined with DSA and recoil distance methods. Multipole mixing ratios for several cascade transitions were extracted from an analysis of γ-ray angular correlation data. Reduced transition probabilities thus deduced in a model-independent way were found to be in agreement with the rotational model with Q0 = 7.41 ± 0.06 e · b and gK?gR = 1.377 ± 0.010.