We report our results of the experimental search for new low-lying
excited 0+ states in the 160Dy nucleus. The energy interval in which they should
be observed was theoretically predicted by the parabolic energy distribution of
0+ states in the space of the monopole bosons, that are built from fermion pairs,
as well as in the framework of the interacting vector bosons model (IVBM).
In the experiment, a new more sensitive technique is used for measuring emulsion spectrograms of internal conversion electrons (ICE) using the Automated
Scanning Microscope MAS −1. In the region of the theoretically predicted energies, new E0 transitions and excited 0+-states are observed in the spectrum of
the 160Dy nucleus.