Study of the β-decay of 100Tc with Total Absorption γ-Ray Spectroscopy
Abstract
The eta-decay of 100 Tc has been studied using the Total Absorption γ-Ray Spectroscopy technique at IGISOL. In this work the new DTAS spectrometer in coincidence with a cylindrical plastic eta detector has been employed. The eta-intensity to the ground state obtained from the analysis is in good agreement with previous high-resolution measurements. However, differences in the feeding to the first excited state as well as weak feeding to a new level at high excitation energy have been deduced from this experiment. Theoretical calculations performed in the quasiparticle random- phase approximation (QRPA) framework are also reported. Comparison of these calculations with our measurement serves as a benchmark for calculations of the double eta-decay of 100 Mo.