| Abstract No: | 
028 
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| Submitted on: | 
3 Jan 2001, 11:20 GMT 
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| Title: | 
 Investigation of the  | 
| Author(s): | 
T. Morek,1 J. Srebrny,1 Ch.Droste,1 M. Kowalczyk,1 
T. Rzaca-Urban,1 K. Starosta,1 W. Urban,1 R. Kaczarowski,2 
E. Ruchowska,2 M. Kisielinski,3 A. Kordyasz,3 J. Kownacki,3 
M. Palacz,3 E. Weso | 
| Affiliation(s): | 
 1Nuclear Physics Division, IEP, Warsaw University, Poland,
2The Andrzej So 
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The decay of the 
= 8- isomers in 132Ce and 134Nd 
have been investigated on the beam of the Warsaw Cyclotron using OSIRIS array. 
Reactions 120Sn(16O,4n)132Ce and 
118Sn(20Ne,4n)134Nd were used.
For 132mCe a half-life of 9.4
0.3 ms was determined. 
Two new decay paths have been found in the deexcitation of this isomer. 
The hindrance factors for the E1, M2 and E3 transitions deexciting 
the isomer have been determined [1]. The decay properties of the 
8- isomers in the N=74 isotones are discussed. 
A band mixing mechanism involving the ground state band and s-band 
seems to be responsible for the behaviour of the reduced hindrance factors 
of the E1 transitions deexciting the 
=8- isomers in these 
isotones. 
A K-mixing, characteristic for the axially asymmetric nuclei, may 
account for the reduced hindrance factors 
 of the E3 
transition to the 5
 states in 130Ba and 132Ce. 
Similar E3 decay of the 410 
s isomeric state in 134mNd has not 
been observed. However, we were able to determine that in this case the 
reduced hindrance factor 
.