COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF THE GAMMA-RAY SPECTROSCOPY OF CA-43

The reaction 40Ar( alpha ,n gamma )43Ca was used to populate the levels in 43Ca at bombarding energies between 5.5 and 19 MeV, gamma - gamma coincidence measurements at Ealpha=8.5, 15 and 16 MeV being used to establish the decay scheme of 53 levels. Several new levels and new decays of levels with high angular momentum were established. The Doppler-shift attenuation method was used with solid Ar targets to deduce the mean lifetimes for most of these levels. A Ge(Li)-Na(Tl) escape-suppressed spectrometer and a three-Ge(Li) Compton polarimeter were used to measure the angular distribution and linear polarisation of gamma rays at alpha bombarding energies of 7.0, 14.5 and 17 MeV.