Direct Evidence of Octupole Deformation in Neutron-Rich ${}^{144}$Ba

B. Bucher, S. Zhu, C. Y. Wu +31

The neutron-rich nucleus ${}^{144}$Ba ($t_{1/2}$=11.5 s) is expected to exhibit some of the strongest octupole correlations among nuclei with mass numbers $A$ less than 200. Until no…