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M Jentschel1, W Urban, J Krempel
1Institut Laue-Langevin, 6 rue Jules Horowitz, BP 156, F-38042 Grenoble, France.
Abstract:
Tetrahedral symmetry in strongly interacting systems would establish a new class of quantum effects at subatomic scale. Excited states in 156Gd that could carry the information about the tetrahedral symmetry were populated in the 155Gd(n,γ)156Gd reaction and studied using the GAMS4/5 Bragg spectrometers at the Institut Laue-Langevin. We have identified the 5(1)- → 3(1)- transition of 131.983(12) keV in 156Gd and determined its intensity to be 1.9(3)x10(-6) per neutron capture. The lifetime τ=220(-30)(+180) fs of the 5(1)- state in 156Gd has been measured using the GRID technique. The resulting B(E2)=293(-134)(+6) Weisskopf unit rate of the 131.983 keV transition provides the intrinsic quadrupole moment of the 5(1)- state in 156Gd to be Q0=7.1(-1.6)(+0.7) b. This large value, comparable to the quadrupole moment of the ground state in 156Gd, gives strong evidence against tetrahedral symmetry in the lowest odd-spin, negative-parity band of 156Gd.
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