Population of a low-spin positive-parity band from high-spin intruder states in Au; The Two-state mixing effect

Venhart, M.*; Balogh, M.*; Herz, A.*; Wood, J. L.*; Ali, F. A.*; Joss, D. T.*; Andreyev, A. N.; Auranen, K.*; Carroll, R. J.*; Drummond, M. C.*; et al.

Physics Letters B, 806, p.135488_1 - 135488_6, 2020/07

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135488

The extremely neutron-deficient isotopes Au were studied by means of in-beam -ray spectroscopy. Specific tagging techniques, -decay tagging in Au and isomer tagging in Au, were used for these studies. Feeding of positive-parity, nearly spherical states, which are associated with 2 and 3 proton-hole configurations, from the 1 proton-intruder configuration was observed in Au. Such a decay path has no precedent in odd-Au isotopes and it is explained by the effect of mixing of wave functions of the initial state.