Competing single-particle and collective structures in [Formula Presented]Nb

S. L. Tabor, J. Döring, G. D. Johns, R. A. Kaye, G. N. Sylvan, C. J. Gross, Y. A. Akovali, C. Baktash, D. W. Stracener, P. F. Hua, M. Korolija, D. R. LaFosse, D. G. Sarantites, F. E. Durham, I. Y. Lee, A. O. Macchiavelli, W. Rathbun, A. Vander Molen

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Abstract

The high-spin structure of odd-odd [Formula Presented]Nb was studied with the early implementation of GAMMASPHERE using 36 Compton-suppressed Ge detectors and the MICROBALL, a 95-element full-sphere charged-particle detector array. High-spin states were populated using the [Formula Presented]Ni[Formula Presented]S,[Formula Presented] reaction at 135 MeV with beams from the 88-Inch Cyclotron at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. A number of bands were observed up to spins as high as [Formula Presented]. The yrast positive-parity band shares many characteristics with the [Formula Presented] bands in other odd-odd [Formula Presented]-[Formula Presented]-[Formula Presented] shell nuclei. These similarities include the behavior of the moments of inertia, the magnitude and phase of the signature splitting and its phase reversal near the [Formula Presented] state, and the strong alternations in the [Formula Presented] strengths. The moments of inertia in the lowest pair of negative-parity bands start out with a sharp upbend and then gradually fall back to the rigid-body value. New positive- and negative-parity bands appear in the quasiparticle alignment region and eventually become yrast. Some additional positive-parity states around spin [Formula Presented] are candidates for fully or nearly fully aligned shell-model-like configurations.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)142-153
Number of pages12
JournalPhysical Review C - Nuclear Physics
Volume56
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1997

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