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Nuclear metastable states with half-lives longer than a few nanoseconds may be found in many nuclides in the nuclear landscape. With the increasing sensitivity of different measuring techniques, a number of new isomers are being discovered with various spectrometers at new accelerator facilities. These isomers provide a tool to study the different nuclear structure models. Furthermore, a wide range of applications of nuclear isomers remain a topic of current interest. In particular, nuclear isomers have the potential to provide material with high energy storage capacity with controlled release of its energy on demand. The tools required to probe the isomers will be presented [1]. Some of our recent results on nuclear isomers will be highlighted [2-6].
Acknowledgements:
Author is thankful to all the members of the INGA collaboration for the various inputs and discussion. The help of the staff at TIFR-BARC Pelletron Linac Facility and TIFR central workshop for successful completion of the INGA campaign is acknowledged. Support from S. V. Jadhav, R. Donthi, B. S. Naidu and A. Thomas during the experiment is deeply acknowledged. This work was supported in part by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (No. IR/S2/PF-03/2003-II).
References:
[1] R. Palit, et al. NIMA 680 90(2012). [2] S. Saha et al., PRC 89 044315 (2014). [3] S. Biswas et al., PRC 93 034324 (2016). [4] J. Sethi et al., JPG43, 015103 (2016). [5] P. Singh et al., EPJA 53, 69 (2017). [6] Md. S. R. Laskar et al., PRC 99, 014308 (2019).
