Phys.Rev. C 86, 054314 (2012)

R.O.Hughes, G.J.Lane, G.D.Dracoulis, A.P.Byrne, P.H.Nieminen, H.Watanabe, M.P.Carpenter, P.Chowdhury, R.V.F.Janssens, F.G.Kondev, T.Lauritsen, D.Seweryniak, S.Zhu

High-spin structure, K isomers, and state mixing in the neutron-rich isotopes ¹⁷³Tm and ¹⁷⁵Tm

NUCLEAR REACTIONS ^174,176Yb, ^175,176Lu(¹³⁶Xe, X), E=820 MeV; measured Eγ, Iγ, γγ-coin, isomer half-lives by γγ(t) using Gammasphere array at ANL facility. ^173,175Tm; deduced high-spin levels, isomers, J, π, bands, conversion coefficients, multipolarity, alignments, mixing ratios, g_K-g_R, B(EL), B(ML), hindrance factors, configurations. Comparison with multiquasiparticle calculations. Systematics of energies of multiquasiparticle states in N=104, 106 isotones ^172,174Er, ^173,175Tm, ^174,176Yb, ^175,177Lu. Mixing of high-K bands.

NUCLEAR STRUCTURE ^173,175Tm; calculated levels, J, π, configurations. Multiquasiparticle calculations using single-particle energies from a Nilsson calculation and Lipkin-Nogami formalism for pairing correlations. Comparison with experimental data.

doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.86.054314