Abstract
Excited states in 193Os were populated using a 192Os(n_þ.,γ)193Os thermal neutron capture reaction, with neutrons provided by the high-flux reactor of the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France. Lifetimes of low-spin excited states were measured using the generalized centroid difference method. A total of eight mean lifetimes of low-lying excited states were determined for the first time, and limits for the lifetimes of three further excited states were established. Additionally, γ−γ angular correlations were analyzed to assign spins to previously known excited states up to 1 MeV, and extract multipole mixing ratios for several transitions. The new spectroscopic information is compared to calculations in the framework of the interacting boson-fermion model, based on the nuclear density functional theory, to investigate the prolate-to-oblate shape phase transition, predicted to occur in the neutron rich A≈190 region.
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