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Evidence for enhanced collectivity in Te-I-Xe nuclei near the N = Z = 50 double shell closure

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Gamma‐ray transitions have been identified for the first time in the extremely neutron‐deficient Tz = 1 nuclide 110Xe and the energies of the three lowest excited states in the ground‐state band have been deduced. A level scheme has also been constructed for the proton‐unbound, Tz = 3/2 nuclide 109I, exhibiting band structures built on g7/2 and h11/2 states in a weakly deformed, triaxial nucleus. In addition, a third band is proposed to be built on a g7/2 orbital coupled to an octupole‐vibrational phonon of the 108Te core. The results were obtained in a recoil‐decay tagging experiment using the 58Ni(54Fe,2n/p2n) reaction at a beam energy of 195 MeV. The experiment was performed using the highly efficient JUROGAM γ‐ray spectrometer in conjunction with the RITU gas‐filled recoil separator and the GREAT focal‐plane spectrometer. The results on 110Xe establish a breaking of the normal trend of increasing first excited 2+ and 4+ level energies as a function of decreasing neutron number as the N = 50 major shel...