β-γ and isomeric decay spectroscopy of 168Dy

• Main Authors: Zhang G.X., Watanabe H., Kondev F.G., Lane G.J., Regan P.H., Söderström P.-A., Walker P.M., Kanaoka H., Korkulu Z., Lee P.S, Liu J.J, Nishimura S., Wu J., Yagi A., Ahn D.S., Alharbi T., Baba H., Browne F., Bruce A.M., Carroll R.J., Chae K.Y., Dombradi Zs., Doornenbal P., Estrade A., Fukuda N., Griffin C., Ideguchi E., Inabe N., Isobe T., Kanaya S., Kojouharov I., Kubo T., Kubono S., Kurz N., Kuti I., Lalkovski S., Lee C.S., Lee E.J., Lorusso G., Lotay G., Moon C.-B, Nishizuka I., Nita C.R., Odahara A., Patel Z., Phong V.H., Podolyák Zs., Roberts O.J., Sakurai H., Schaffner H., Shand C.M., Shimizu Y., Sumikama T., Suzuki H., Takeda H., Terashima S., Vajta Zs., Valiente-Dóbon J.J., Xu Z.Y.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: EDP Sciences 2018-01-01
• Series: EPJ Web of Conferences
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201817802023

This contribution will report on the experimental work on the level structure of 168Dy. The experimental data have been taken as part of the EURICA decay spectroscopy campaign at RIBF, RIKEN in November 2014. In the experiment, a 238U primary beam is accelerated up to 345 MeV/u with an average intensity of 12 pnA. The nuclei of interest are produced by in-flight fission of 238U impinging on Be target with a thickness of 5 mm. The excited states of 168Dy have been populated through the decay from a newly identified isomeric state and via the β decay from 168Tb. In this contribution, scientific motivations, experimental procedure and some preliminary results for this study are presented.