Published February 1994 | Version v1
Journal article

Identical bands in 77Sr, 78Sr, and 78Rb: Evidence for a very good spectator orbital

  • 1. Department of Chemistry, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri 63130 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, S-412 96 Goeteborg (Sweden)
  • 3. Department of Physics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996 (United States)
  • 4. Joint Institute for Heavy Ion Research, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831 (United States)
  • 5. A. W. Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511 (United States)
  • 6. II. Physikalisches Institut, Universitaet Goettingen, D-37073 Goettingen (Germany)
  • 7. Centre de Spectrometrie Nucleaire et du Spectrometrie de Masse, IN2P3-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Orsay (France)
  • 8. Physics Department, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 5XH (United Kingdom)
  • 9. United Kingdom Science and Engineering Research Council, Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington WA4 4AD (United Kingdom)
  • 10. Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831 (United States)

Description

The highest spin states in a Tz=1/2 nucleus have been observed in 77Sr: Iπ=(49/2+) and (29/2-). In addition, states up to Iπ=(22+) have been seen in 78Sr. The α=1/2, g9/2 band and both signature partners of the negative parity band in 77Sr were found to be identical to the yrast band in 78Sr with relative alignments of 1.22(7)ℎ, 0.52(5)ℎ(α=1/2), and 0.42(4)ℎ(α=-1/2), respectively. In one of the negative parity bands, the identicality persists through the first proton band crossing. The odd spin decay sequence of the 4- band in 78Rb is identical to the ground band of 78Sr [3.02(3)ℎ] at low spin and to the α=1/2, g9/2 band in 77Rb [1.11(3)ℎ] at higher spins. These are the only known examples of identical bands in the neutron deficient A=80 region. The analysis indicates that the [301]3/2 Nilsson orbital is a very good spectator orbital

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Journal Title
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
Journal Volume
49
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. R580-R583.
ISSN
0556-2813
CODEN
PRVCAN