Published April 1999 | Version v1
Journal article

Exploring the I=50-60 hbar domain: collective and terminating structures in 156Dy, 159Er and 160Er

  • 1. Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 (United States)
  • 2. CCLRC, Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, Warrington, WA4 4AD (United Kingdom)
  • 3. Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439 (United States)
  • 4. Department of Mathematical Physics, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund (Sweden)
  • 5. Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 (United States)
  • 6. Department of Physics, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS 39762 (United States)
  • 7. National Accelerator Centre, Faure, PO Box 72, ZA-7131 (South Africa)
  • 8. Schuster Laboratory, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL (United Kingdom)
  • 9. Institute of Nuclear Physics, NCSR Demokritos, 15310 Athens (Greece)

Description

Very high spin (50-60ℎ) states in transitional 156Dy, 159Er and 160Er nuclei have been studied using the GAMMASPHERE and EUROGAM γ-ray spectrometers. The lowest energy positive-parity bands in 156Dy are found to evolve smoothly towards an oblate shape in contrast to the sudden change observed in the neighbouring 158Er nucleus. In 159Er, the decay path of the positive-parity yrast band splits above Iπ=85/2+ and favoured multi-particle-hole states are identified in the irregular pattern at 89/2+ and 101/2+. The yrast structure of 160Er is found to remain collective up to and beyond 50ℎ with no sign of an apparent termination. (author)

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Journal Title
Journal of Physics. G, Nuclear and Particle Physics (Online)
Journal Volume
25
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 897-899
ISSN
1361-6471

Conference

Title
International conference on the physics of nuclear structure at the extremes
Dates
17-19 Jun 1998
Place
Lewes, Sussex (United Kingdom)

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