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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 142-153 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics |
Volume | 56 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1997 |