Phenomenological description of ground state bands for doubly even plutonium-isotopes

The energy levels of the ground state bands of even-even plutonium-isotopes are studied according to the variable moment of inertia (VMI), variable moment of inertia nuclear softness (VMINS) and nuclear softness (NS) models. In general, the NS3 model leads to more reasonable results than the others. The backbending phenomena in these were described and discussed. The calculations of the transition probabilities B(E2) show that the effect of addition of each neutron pair on the deformation parameter (BETA) is very small. Furthermore, the proton and neutron effective charges are found to be e=0.48 eb and e-v =0.33 eb