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The nucleus '~Sm has been studied with the (n, n'y) reaction and lifetimes of many states have been extracted from the observed Doppler shifts of the deexciting y rays. A large number of fast E1 transitions have been observed and have led to the identification of possible members of the octupole-octupole and the quadrupole-octupole multiplets.Substantial fragmentation of the twophonon octupole strength is indicated.

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