Spectroscopy of 135 La

The 135 La nucleus has been studied using the fusion-evaporation reaction 124 Sn( 17 N,6n) induced by the 17 N radioactivebeam.Thelevelschemehasbeenconstructedfromthe γ-γ coincidence measurementwithanarrayof 12 HPGe detectors, and the lifetimes of two previously known isomeric states has been deduced. The transitions and their intensities observed in the current work as well as the level scheme derived from them is in agreement with the results of a recently published work. However, our interpretation of the results differs significantly in terms of spin and parity assignments, thus solving various contradictions concerning the configurations of some of the bands discussed in the aforementioned work.