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Beyond band termination in 157Er and the search for wobbling excitations in strongly deformed 174Hf

M A Riley1, M K Djongolov2, A O Evans3, D J Hartley4, R V F Janssens5, E S Paul3, J Simpson6, A A Aguilar1, D E Appelbe6, C R Bingham2, D B Campbell1, M P Carpenter5, P Chowdhury7, P T W Choy3, R M Clark8, M Cromaz8, D M Cullen9, M Danchev2, G D Dracoulis10, P Fallon8, A Görgen8, G B Hagemann11, D T Joss6, J Goon2, R A Kaye12, T L Khoo5, F G Kondev5,13, R W Laird14, K Lagergren1, T Lauritsen5, A O Macchiavelli8, B McClain14, E F Moore5, G Mukherjee7, E Ngijoi-Yogo7, P J Nolan3, H I Park2, A Pipidis1, L L Riedinger2, G Sletten11, S K Tandel7, P M Walker15, D Ward8, I Ragnarsson16, F Sarić16 and Jing-ye Zhang2

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High-spin terminating bands in heavy nuclei were first identified in nuclei around 158Er90. While examples of special terminating states have been identified in a number of erbium isotopes, almost nothing is known about the states lying beyond band termination. In the present work the high-spin structure of 157Er has been studied using the Gammasphere spectrometer.

The subject of triaxial superdeformation and 'wobbling' modes in Lu nuclei has rightly attracted a great deal of attention. Very recently, four strongly or superdeformed (SD) sequences have been observed in 174Hf and ultimate cranker calculations predict such structures may have significant triaxial deformation. We have performed two experiments in an attempt to verify the possible triaxial nature of these bands. A lifetime measurement was performed to confirm the large (and similar) deformation of the bands. In addition, a high-statistics, thin-target experiment was run to search for linking transitions between the SD bands and possible wobbling modes.


PACS

21.10.Re Collective levels

21.60.Ev Collective models

21.10.Ma Level density

27.70.+q 150(less-than-or-equal-to)A(less-than-or-equal-to)189

Subjects

Nuclear physics

Dates

Issue 10 (October 2005)

Received 22 April 2005

Published 12 September 2005



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