- Parker, JJ;
- Wiedenhöver, I;
- Cottle, PD;
- Baker, J;
- McPherson, D;
- Riley, MA;
- Santiago-Gonzalez, D;
- Volya, A;
- Bader, VM;
- Baugher, T;
- Bazin, D;
- Gade, A;
- Ginter, T;
- Iwasaki, H;
- Loelius, C;
- Morse, C;
- Recchia, F;
- Smalley, D;
- Stroberg, SR;
- Whitmore, K;
- Weisshaar, D;
- Lemasson, A;
- Crawford, HL;
- Macchiavelli, AO;
- Wimmer, K
Previous experiments observed a 4^{+} state in the N=28 nucleus ^{44}S and suggested that this state may exhibit a hindered E2-decay rate, inconsistent with being a member of the collective ground state band. We populate this state via two-proton knockout from a beam of exotic ^{46}Ar projectiles and measure its lifetime using the recoil distance method with the GRETINA γ-ray spectrometer. The result, 76(14)_{stat}(20)_{syst} ps, implies a hindered transition of B(E2;4^{+}→2_{1}^{+})=0.61(19) single-particle or Weisskopf units strength and supports the interpretation of the 4^{+} state as a K=4 isomer, the first example of a high-K isomer in a nucleus of such low mass.