Isoscalar excitations of7Li

Inelastic scattering of 35 MeV alpha particles from7Li was used to induce the five known inelastic excitations. A collective coupled channel analysis yielded deformations for each transition and isoscalar quadrupole reduced transition rates were determined for each. The strong-coupling rotational model was found to agree closely with the results for the states associated with the ground state band, but the higher states are excited mainly by a two-step mechanism.