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AK=3two-quasiparticle isomer in98Sr

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The decay of on-line mass-separated ${}^{98}\mathrm{Rb}$ to ${}^{98}\mathrm{Sr}$ is studied by $\ensuremath{\gamma}$ spectroscopy. The revised decay scheme adds further evidence of the coexistence of very different shapes in ${}^{98}\mathrm{Sr}.$ A set of levels is proposed to originate from particle-hole pair excitations across the $Z=40$ spherical gap in analogy with ${}^{96}\mathrm{Sr}.$ A deformed $K=3$ band with probable even parity is built on a 7.1-ns isomer at 1838 keV. It is interpreted as a two-quasineutron excitation in accordance with a quantum Monte Carlo pairing calculation based on a deformed shell model. Configurations of the calculated lowest-lying two-quasiparticle levels confirm the importance of the [404]9/2 neutron orbital at the largest deformations in the neutron-rich $A\ensuremath{\simeq}100$ region.