Microscopic structure of the Gamow-Teller resonance in 208Bi

The 208Pb(3He,t)208Bi reaction has been studied with the RCNP ring cyclotron at E(3He) = 450 MeV using the magnetic spectrometer Grand Raiden at [theta] = 0[deg]. The Gamow-Teller resonance is strongly excited at this bombarding energy. Its microscopic structure has been investigated by measuring the direct proton decay to the neutron-hole states in 207Pb. The branching ratio for proton emission of a few % is much smaller than that for the decay of the isobaric analog state. The total width of the Gamow-Teller resonance as well as its total and partial escape widths have been determined. Several recent theoretical estimates for the escape width differ from the measured values by factors of ~ 2.5.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/31713/1/0000649.pd