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Photoactivation of Ta-180(m) and its implications for the nucleosynthesis of nature's rarest naturally occurring isotope

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Physical Review Letters, 83 (25): 5242-5245 (December 1999)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.5242

Abstract

The depopulation of the quasistable isomer in Ta-180 with J(pi) = 9(-) at E-x = 75 keV by resonant photoabsorption was investigated with intense bremsstrahlung. The results indicate a dramatic acceleration of the isomer decay to the short-lived J(pi) = 1(+) ground state under stellar s-process conditions. The consequences for a possible nucleosynthesis of nature's rarest isotope Ta-180. within the s process are discussed.

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