High-spin states of Th-218

Chishti, Muhammad Majid Rauf/0000-0003-1246-7655; Srivastava, Praveen C/0000-0001-8719-1548; SAYGI, BAHADIR/0000-0001-5406-506X; Capponi, Luigi/0000-0002-2522-5463; O'Donnell, David/0000-0002-4710-3803WOS: 000560439700001High-spin states in theN= 128 nucleus(218)Th have been investigated following fusion-evaporation reactions, using the recoil-decay tagging technique. Due to the short-lived nature of the ground state of(218)Th prompt gamma rays have been correlated with the alpha decay of the daughter nucleus(214)Ra. the level scheme representing the decay of excited states has been extended to (16(+)) with the observation of six previously unreported transitions. the observations are compared with the results of shell model calculations and within the context of the systematics of neighbouring nuclei.UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC); EU 7th Framework Programme 'Integrating Activities-Transnational Access'European Union (EU) [262010]; Academy of Finland under the Finnish Centre of Excellence Programme 2012-2017 (Nuclear and Accelerator Based Physics Programme at JYFL); Academy of FinlandAcademy of Finland [131665]Financial support for this work has been provided by the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and by the EU 7th Framework Programme 'Integrating Activities-Transnational Access', Project No.: 262010 (ENSAR) and by the Academy of Finland under the Finnish Centre of Excellence Programme 2012-2017 (Nuclear and Accelerator Based Physics Programme at JYFL). TG acknowledges the support of the Academy of Finland, contract number 131665. the authors acknowledge the support of GAMMAPOOL for the loan of the JUROGAM detectors. the authors would also like to express their gratitude to the technical staff of the Accelerator Laboratory at the University of Jyvaskyla for their support