Fine structure in proton emission from 145Tm discovered with digital signal processing

Phys Rev Lett. 2003 Jan 10;90(1):012502. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.012502. Epub 2003 Jan 7.

Abstract

Fine structure in proton emission from the 3.1(3) mus activity of 145Tm was discovered by using a novel technique of digital processing of overlapping recoil implantation and decay signals. Proton transitions to the ground state of 144Er and to its first excited 2(+) state at 0.33(1) MeV with a branching ratio I(p)(2(+))=9.6+/-1.5% were observed. The structure of the 145Tm wave function and the emission process were analyzed by using particle-core vibration coupling models.