The level structure of 114Cd from (n, γ) and (d, p) studies

Abstract

Gamma rays and conversion electrons have been measured following thermal neutron capture in 113Cd using the crystal spectrometers GAMS and the β-spectrometer BILL at the High Flux Reactor of the ILL at Grenoble. Primary γ-rays following thermal and average resonance neutron capture at E n = 2 keV and 24 keV were recorded at the High Flux Beam Reactor at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. The 113Cd(d, p) 114Cd reaction was studied with the Q3D spectrograph at the Munich tandem accelerator. Combining all these experimental results an almost complete level scheme of 114Cd was constructed up to 3.3 MeV including 48 excited levels with spin and parity information. The level scheme is discussed in terms of particle-hole excitations across the Z = 50 closed shell coupled to collective states, as well as in an interacting boson configuration mixing scheme.