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Half-life and spin of 60Mng

S. N. Liddick, P. F. Mantica, B. A. Brown, M. P. Carpenter, A. D. Davies, M. Horoi, R. V. F. Janssens, A. C. Morton, W. F. Mueller, J. Pavan, H. Schatz, A. Stolz, S. L. Tabor, B. E. Tomlin, M. Wiedeking

nucl-exarXiv:nucl-ex/0604001

Abstract

A value of 0.28 +/- 0.02 s has been deduced for the half-life of the ground state of 60Mn, in sharp contrast to the previously adopted value of 51 +/- 6 s. Access to the low-spin 60Mn ground state was accomplished via beta decay of the 0+ 60Cr parent nuclide. New, low-energy states in 60Mn have been identified from beta-delayed gamma-ray spectroscopy. The new, shorter half-life of 60Mng is not suggestive of isospin forbidden beta decay, and new spin and parity assignments of 1+ and 4+ have been adopted for the ground and isomeric beta-decaying states, respectively, of 60Mn.

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