Decay studies of neutron-rich products from 76Ge induced multinucleon transfer reactions including the new isotopes 62Mn, 63Fe and 71, 72, 73Cu

By irradiating a ^natW target with 9 MeV/u ⁷⁶Ge ions, neutron-rich isotopes in the chromiumgermanium region were produced. On-line mass-separated samples were investigated. The new isotopes ⁶²Mn, ⁷¹Cu, ⁷²Cu and ⁷³Cu were identified and their half-lives measured to be 0.88(15), 19.5(16), 6.6(1) and 3.9(3) s, respectively. The half-life of ⁶³Fe, a nucleus which has previously been detected using particle-identification techniques, was measured to be 4.9(5) s. Decay schemes were derived in most cases. Additional spectroscopic information was obtained on the decays of ⁷³Zn and ⁷⁴Zn. We give evidence that the earlier reported γ-ray activity attributed to ⁶⁷Ni belongs to the decay of the ⁷⁰Cu isomers. At A = 67 we observed a new β-ray activity of 21(1) s half-life which is here assigned to the decay of ⁶⁷Ni.