Decay studies of the long-lived states in Tl

Stryjczyk, M.*; Andel, B.*; Andreyev, A. N.; Cubiss, J.*; Pakarinen, J.*; 他43名*

Stryjczyk, M.*; Andel, B.*; Andreyev, A. N.; Cubiss, J.*; Pakarinen, J.*; 43 of others*

Decay spectroscopy of the long-lived states in Tl has been performed at ISOLDE, CERN. The decay from the low-spin (2) state in Tl was observed for the first time and a half-life was determined. Based on the -decay energy, the relative positions of the long-lived states were fixed, with the (2) state as the ground state, the 7 state at 77(56) keV, and the 10 state at 451(56) keV. The level scheme of the internal decay of the Tl(10) state, which was known to decay solely through emission of 374-keV -ray transition, was extended and a lower limit for the -decay branching b 5.9(3)% was determined. The extracted retardation factors for the decay of the 10 state were compared to the available data in neighboring odd-odd thallium isotopes indicating the importance of the d shell in the isomeric decay and significant structure differences between Tl and Tl.