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The relativistic projectile fragmentation of a 750 MeV per nucleon beam of Ag107 was used to populate isomeric states in neutron-deficient nuclei around A=80-90. Reaction products were separated and unambiguously identified using the GSI FRagment Separator (FRS) and its ancillary detectors. At the final focal plane, the fragments were slowed from relativistic energies by means of an aluminium degrader and implanted in a passive stopper in the center of the high-efficiency, high-granularity Stopped Rare Isotope Spectroscopic INvestigation at GSI (RISING) germanium array. This allowed the identification of excited states in the N=Z nuclei 4386Tc and, for the first time, 4182Nb. Isomeric states have also been identified for the first time in Tc87,88, and a previously unreported isomer was observed in Nb84. Experimental results are presented along with a discussion on the structure of these nuclei based on interpretations provided by several theoretical models. © 2009 The American Physical Society. ; Sponsored by the EPSRC (UK) and STFC (UK), The Swedish Research Council, The Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Grant Nos. P03B03030 and N N202 309135), the Bulgarian Science Fund VUF06/05, the US Department of Energy (Grant Nos. DE-FG02-91ER-40609 and DE-AC02-06CH11357), the Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Project Nos. FPA2005-00696 and FPA2007-66069), the German Federal Ministry of Education, the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (Contract No. K68801), research under Grant No. 06KY205I, and EURONS (European Commision Contract No. 506065). Chinese Major State Basic Development Program through Grant No. 2007CB815005 and the Natural Science Foundation of China under Contract No. 10875077.Nexia Solutions Ltd, a subsidiary of BNFL, for financial support. ; Peer Reviewed

WOS: 000314826000009 ; The response of AGATA segmented HPGe detectors to gamma rays in the energy range 2-15 MeV was measured. The 15.1 MeV gamma rays were produced using the reaction d(B-11,n gamma)C-12 at E-beam=19.1 MeV, while gamma rays between 2 and 9 MeV were produced using an Am-Be-Fe radioactive source. The energy resolution and linearity were studied and the energy-to-pulse-height conversion resulted to be linear within 0.05%.Experimental interaction multiplicity distributions are discussed and compared with the results of Geant4 simulations. It is shown that the application of gamma-ray tracking allows a suppression of background radiation caused by n-capture in Ge nuclei. Finally the Doppler correction for the 15.1 MeV gamma line, performed using the position information extracted with Pulse-shape analysis is discussed. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. ; European Union [262010-ENSAR]; MINECO Spain [AIC-D-2011-0746, FPA2011-29854]; Generalitat Valenciana, Spain [PROME-TEO/2010/101]; German BMBF [06K-167, 06KY205I] ; This research has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Program FP7/2007-2013 under grant Agreement no. 262010-ENSAR. A.G. activity has been supported by the MINECO Spain, under grants AIC-D-2011-0746, FPA2011-29854 and by and Generalitat Valenciana, Spain, under grant PROME-TEO/2010/101. We acknowledge the support by the German BMBF under Grants 06K-167 and 06KY205I.

6 pags.; 4 figs.; This is an open access article under the CC BY license. Funded by SCOAP ; © 2015 The Authors. The β decays Mn68→Fe68, Mn69→Fe69 and Mn70→Fe70 have been measured at the RIBF facility at RIKEN using the EURICA γ spectrometer combined with an active stopper consisting of a stack of Si detectors. The nuclei were produced as fission fragments from a beam of 238U at a bombarding energy of 345 MeV/nucleon impinging on a Be target and selected using the BigRIPS separator. Half-lives and β-delayed neutron emission probabilities have been extracted for these decays, together with first experimental information on excited states populated in 69,70Fe. The data indicate a continuously increasing deformation for Fe isotopes up to A=70. This is interpreted, as for Cr isotopes, in terms of the interplay between the quadrupole correlations of the ν1d5/2 and ν0g9/2 orbitals and the monopole component of the π0f7/2-ν0f5/2 interaction. ; The project is co-financed by the European Union and the European Social Fund. This work was supported by NuPNET-ERANET within the NuPNET GANAS project, under grant agreement No. 202914 and from the European Union, within the 7th Framework Program FP7/2007-2013, under grant agreement No. 262010 ENSAR-INDESYS. This work was also supported by Programmi di Ricerca Scientifica di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (PRIN) number 2001024324_01302. We here acknowledge support from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación under Contracts No. FPA2009-13377-C02 and No. FPA2011-29854-C04, the Hungarian Research Fund OTKA contract numbers K100835 and NN104543, the European Commission through the Marie Curie Actions Contract No. PIEFGA-2001-30096 and by Japanese JSPS KAKENHI Grants No. 24740188 and No. 25247045. ; Peer Reviewed