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A plunger set-up for measuring picosecond nuclear half-lives

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A plunger set-up has been designed and constructed to measure picosecond nuclear half-lives using recoil distance method (RDM). The system has been used to measure the half-lives of nuclear states in35Cl,37,38Ar and40K. The shortest half-life measured with the system isT 1/2=0.36(14) ps for the 4366 keV (8+) state and the longest half-life isT 1/2=1.10(7) ns for the 2543 keV (7+) state in40K.

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    Present address: Nuclear Science Center, JNU Campus, 110 067, New Delhi, India

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  1. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 400 005, Bombay, India

    H C Jain, S Chattopadhyay, Y K Agarwal, M L Jhingan, S K Mitra, H V Panchal & A Roy

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Jain, H.C., Chattopadhyay, S., Agarwal, Y.K. et al. A plunger set-up for measuring picosecond nuclear half-lives. Pramana - J Phys 37, 269–279 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02847481

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