New
isomers in
Cf
Orlandi, R.
; Makii, Hiroyuki
; Nishio, Katsuhisa
; Hirose, Kentaro
; Asai, Masato
; Tsukada, Kazuaki
; Sato, Tetsuya
; Ito, Yuta
; Suzaki, Fumi
; Nagame, Yuichiro*
; Andreyev, A. N.; Ideguchi, Eiji*; Aoi, Nori*; Pham, T. T.*; Yan, S. Q.*; Shen, Y. P.*; Gao, B. S.*; Li, G.*
The nuclear structure of
Cf produced by the
O+
Cf multinucleon transfer reaction was investigated using
-ray spectroscopy. Analysis of the
-ray spectrum of
Cf revealed the presence of multiple long-lived (isomeric) excited states at low excitation energies. The energies and half-lives of the isomers contain information on the proton and neutron orbits in the heavy-element region and the deformation of atomic nuclei, and are important data to predict the properties of nuclei in the "island of stability".