Lecturer: Prof. Naftali Auerbach
Affiliation: Tel Aviv University
Abstract:
The Ta 180m nucleus is the rarest naturally
occurring isotope. It exists in an isomeric
state with half-life time of 1.2 10**15 years,
at an excitation energy of 77 keV and spin
J=9- We study the possibility that when
irradiated by gamma rays or subjected to
Coulomb excitation its decay can be
accelerated by the existence of a doorway.
We describe the mechanism of such a
decay similar to the chaos-assisted
tunneling.
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