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AUTHOR
S.m. Mullins
Octupole correlations in the structure of 0$_2^+$ bands in the N=88 nuclei 150Sm and 152Gd
Knowledge of the exact microscopic structure of the 01 + ground state and first excited 02 + state in 150Sm is required to understand the branching of double β decay to these states from 150Nd. The detailed spectroscopy of 150Sm and 152Gd has been studied using (α,xn) reactions and the γ -ray arrays AFRODITE and JUROGAM II. Consistently strong E1 transitions are observed between the excited Kπ = 02 + bands and the lowest negative parity bands in both nuclei. These results are discussed in terms of the possible permanent octupole deformation in the first excited Kπ = 02 + band and also in terms of the “tidal wave” model of Frauendorf. peerReviewed
Determination of the intrinsic quadrupole moment of the superdeformed band in 143Eu
The intrinsic quadrupole moment, Q0, of the superdeformed band in 143Eu has been extracted from nuclear lifetimes, measured in a Doppler shift attenuation method experiment. Data were collected with the NORDBALL gamma-ray spectrometer following the reaction 110Pd (37Cl, 4n) 143Eu at a beam energy of 160 MeV. A centroid shift analysis of the data was carried out, using the Braune stopping powers to model the slowing down of the recoil nuclei in the target and backing materials. This gave a value of Q0 = 13.0 ± 1.5 eb for the band. The result is in good agreement with the theoretical prediction of Total Routhian Surface calculations, and supports the assigned single particle configuration, in…