EC and decays of Am

Asai, Masato; Sakama, Minoru*; Tsukada, Kazuaki; Ichikawa, Shinichi; Haba, Hiromitsu*; Nishinaka, Ichiro; Nagame, Yuichiro; Goto, Shinichi*; Kojima, Yasuaki*; Oura, Yasuji*; et al.

European Physical Journal A, 22(3), p.411 - 416, 2004/12

https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2004-10044-6

EC and decays of Am have been studied by means of -ray spectroscopy. Excited states in Pu have been established for the first time, and tentative spin-parity and Nilsson assignments were given to these levels. The ground state of Am was evaluated to be the state from the experimental results. It was found that the state in Np is located at 15~keV, which allowed us to determine the value of Am as 6569~keV, in combination with the measured -particle energy.