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Phys. Rev. C 67, 014311 (2003) [12 pages]

β decay studies of the neutron-rich 56–58V isotopes

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P. F. Mantica1,2, A. C. Morton1, B. A. Brown1,3, A. D. Davies1,3, T. Glasmacher1,3, D. E. Groh1,2, S. N. Liddick1,2, D. J. Morrissey1,2, W. F. Mueller1, H. Schatz1,3, A. Stolz1, S. L. Tabor4, M. Honma5, M. Horoi6, and T. Otsuka7
1National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
2Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
3Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
4Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306
5Center for Mathematical Sciences, University of Aizu, Tsuruga, Ikki-machi, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima 965-8580, Japan
6Physics Department, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859
7Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Tokyo, 113-0033RIKEN, Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-1098, Japan

Received 17 June 2002; published 22 January 2003

β decay of 56,57,58V has been used to populate low-energy levels of 56,57,58Cr, respectively. The low-energy levels of the even-even Cr isotopes and β-decay half-lives and branching ratios of the parent V isotopes are compared to results of shell-model calculations. The Cr energy level calculations were completed in the full pf-model space, using several different interactions. The systematic variation of E(21+), which is indicative of a subshell closure at N=32, was best reproduced in calculations using a pf-shell-model interaction based on effective two-body matrix elements with some replacement by the G matrix.

© 2003 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevC.67.014311
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevC.67.014311
PACS:
23.40.-s, 23.20.Lv, 21.60.Cs, 27.40.+z