Abstract

The 100\% polarized photon beam at the high intensity gamma ray source (HI gamma S) at Duke University has been used to determine the parity of six dipole excitations between 2.9 and 3.6 MeV in the deformed nuclei Yb-172,Yb-174 in photon scattering ((gamma) over right arrowy') experiments. The measured parities are compared with previous assignments based on the K quantum number that had been assigned in nuclear resonance fluorescence (NRF) experiments by using the Alaga rules. A systematic survey of the relation between gamma-decay branching ratios and parity quantum numbers is given for the rare earth nuclei.

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