Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Matrix element of the anomalously low-energy (3.5±0.5 eV) transition in 229Th and the isomer lifetime

  • Fields, Particles, and Nuclei
  • Published:
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

The matrix element of the anomalously low-energy (3.5±0.5 eV) nuclear M1 transition between the first excited state and the ground state of the 229Th nucleus is determined with allowance for the Coriolis mixing of the rotational bands. The upper and lower limits on the lifetime of the level with respect to an isomeric transition are given. A method is proposed for measuring the half-life of the low-lying isomer 229mTh directly in a 233U sample.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. C. W. Reich and R. G. Helmer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 271 (1990).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  2. R. G. Helmer and C. W. Reich, Phys. Rev. C 49, 1845 (1994).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  3. G. M. Irwin and K. H. Kim, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 990 (1997).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  4. V. F. Strizhov and E. V. Tkalya, Zh. Éksp. Teor. Fiz. 99, 697 (1991) [Sov. Phys. JETP 72, 387 (1991)].

    Google Scholar 

  5. E. V. Tkalya, V. O. Varlamov, V. V. Lomonosov, and S. A. Nikulin, Phys. Scr. 53, 296 (1996).

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  6. A. M. Dykhne, N. V. Eremin, and E. V. Tkalya, JETP Lett. 64, 345 (1996).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  7. Y. A. Akovali, Nucl. Data Sheets 58, 555 (1989).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  8. Y. A. Akovali, Nucl. Data Sheets 59, 263 (1990).

    Google Scholar 

  9. R. R. Chasman, I. Ahmad, A. M. Friedman, and J. R. Erskine, Rev. Mod. Phys. 49, 833 (1977).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  10. C. E. Bemis, Jr., F. K. McGowan, J. L. C. Ford et al., Phys. Scr. 38, 657 (1988).

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  11. A. Bohr and B. Mottelson, Nuclear Structure, W. A. Benjamin, Reading, Mass. [Russian translation, Mir, Moscow, Vol. 2, 1977].

  12. L. A. Kroger and C. W. Reich, Nucl. Phys. A 259, 29 (1976).

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  13. Y. A. Akovali, Nucl. Data Sheets 60, 617 (1990).

    Google Scholar 

  14. E. V. Tkalya, Zh. Éksp. Teor. Fiz. 102, 379 (1992) [Sov. Phys. JETP 75, 200 (1992)].

    Google Scholar 

  15. C. Corliss and W. Bozeman, Experimental Transition Probabilities for Spectral Lines of Seventy Elements, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1962 [Russian translation, Mir, Moscow, 1968].

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Troitsk Institute of Innovational and Thermonuclear Studies, Troistsk, Russia

    A. M. Dykhne

  2. Scientific-Research Institute of Nuclear Physics, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119899, Moscow, Russia

    E. V. Tkalya

Authors
  1. A. M. Dykhne
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. E. V. Tkalya
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

Pis’ma Zh. Éksp. Teor. Fiz. 67, No. 4, 233–238 (25 February 1998)

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Dykhne, A.M., Tkalya, E.V. Matrix element of the anomalously low-energy (3.5±0.5 eV) transition in 229Th and the isomer lifetime. Jetp Lett. 67, 251–256 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.567659

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/1.567659

PACS numbers

Search

Navigation