Spin and magnetic moment of 33Mg: evidence for a negative-parity intruder ground state

D T Yordanov1, M Kowalska, K Blaum

  • 1Instituut voor Kern- en Stralingsfysica, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium.

Physical Review Letters
|February 1, 2008
PubMed

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