Phys. Rev. C 70, 034301 (2004) [5 pages]Intermediate-energy Coulomb excitation of 52FeReceived 9 February 2004; published 3 September 2004 The nucleus 52Fe with (N=Z=26) has been investigated using intermediate-energy Coulomb excitation in inverse kinematics. A reduced transition probability of B(E2;01+→21+)=817(102) e2 fm4 to the first excited 2+ state at 849.0(5) keV was deduced. The increase in excitation strength B(E2↑) with respect to the even-mass neighbor 54Fe (B(E2↑)=620(50) e2 fm4) agrees with shell-model expectations as the magic number N=28 is approached. This measurement completes the systematics of reduced transition strengths to the first excited 2+ state for the even-even N=Z nuclei up to mass A=56. © 2004 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevC.70.034301
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevC.70.034301
PACS:
27.40.+z, 25.70.De, 23.20.Lv, 23.20.Js
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