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Nuclear structure of \(^{181}\)Au studied via \(\upbeta ^+\)/EC decay of \(^{181}\)Hg at ISOLDE

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The \(\upbeta ^+\)/EC decay of mass separated samples of \(^{181}\)Hg was studied employing the TATRA spectrometer at the ISOLDE facility at CERN. The decay scheme was constructed for the first time. A Broad Energy Germanium detector was used to achieve this by combination of high-gain \(\upgamma \)-ray singles spectroscopy and \(\upgamma \)\(\upgamma \) coincidences. The systematics of excited states associated with the 1\(h_{11/2}\) proton-hole configuration in odd-Au isotopes was extended.

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The authors express their gratitude to the ISOLDE collaboration, the ISOLDE machine operators, and the CERN radioprotection team for excellent support. Special thanks go to the ISOLDE physics coordinators Magdalena Kowalska and Karl Johnston for their help. This work was supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic, by the Slovak Research and Development Agency under contract no. APVV-15-0225, by the United Kingdom Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), by the EU Seventh Framework through ENSAR no. 506065, by the IUAP-Belgian Science Policy (BRix network P7/12), by GOA 10/010 from KU Leuven, and by FWO Flanders. T. E. Cocolios was supported by STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship no. ST/J004189/1.

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Sedlák, M., Venhart, M., Wood, J.L. et al. Nuclear structure of \(^{181}\)Au studied via \(\upbeta ^+\)/EC decay of \(^{181}\)Hg at ISOLDE. Eur. Phys. J. A 56, 161 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-020-00174-0

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