Octupole correlations in 110Xe

The observation of large quadrupole moments led to the suggestion that some nuclei might have spheroidal shapes, while others present a reflection-asymmetric shape, as for example pear shape. Nuclei around N=Z=56, in the vicinity of the double-magic nucleus 100Sn, are expected to show some of the largest octupole correlations in the whole Segré chart, indeed the experimentally deduced B(E3; 3- → 0+) strength in 114Xe is one the largest measured so far. In this contribution the preliminary results of the extended level scheme of 110Xe, which is expected to have even larger octupole correlations, will be presented. The 110Xe was populated via the 54Fe(58Ni,2n) fusion-evaporation reaction at the Accelerator laboratory of the University of Jyväskylä. After the separation of the fusion-evaporation products in MARA, the 110Xe was implanted into a DSSD to further clean the in-beam gamma rays via the recoil alpha tagging technique. The gamma rays emitted from the excited 110Xe levels were measured by the gamma-ray array Jurogam3.