Feeding of discrete-line superdeformed bands at very high spin

P. Taras, S. Flibotte, J. Gascon, B. Haas, S. Pilotte, D. C. Radford, D. Ward, H. R. Andrews, G. C. Ball, F. Banville, S. Cournover, D. Horn, J. K. Johansson, S. Monaro, N. Nadon, D. Prevost, C. Pruneau, D. Thibault, D. M. Tucker, J. C. Waddington

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Abstract

The superdeformed band in Gd149 has been populated with various input angular momenta and excitation energies. These, together with all other available data, indicate that the necessary criterion for populating superdeformed bands is to form cold residual nuclei at spins higher than those where the superdeformed states become yrast. In addition, the decrease in the superdeformed band intensity as it is gated by higher-energy rays does not support the predictions based on a recently proposed feeding mechanism of these states.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1348-1351
Number of pages4
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume61
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - 1988
Externally publishedYes

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