Excitation of $1^{+}$ states in ${}_{}{}^{208}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{Pb}$ has been studied by 201 MeV proton inelastic scattering. Strength assigned to $1^{+}$ isovector states is found between 6.0 and 8.2 MeV excitation energy and compared with theoretical predictions. From the cross section of the recently discovered $1^{+}$ ‘‘isoscalar’’ state at 5.846 MeV, a lower limit is extracted for the volume integral of the total equivalent isoscalar spin-flip part of the nucleon-nucleon interaction.

• Received 2 November 1984

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.31.758