Phys.Rev. C 91, 057301 (2015)

D.J.Hartley, M.A.Riley, X.Wang, S.Miller, R.V.F.Janssens, E.S.Paul, J.M.Rees, J.Simpson, L.L.Riedinger, A.D.Ayangeakaa, M.P.Carpenter, C.J.Chiara, U.Garg, P.Hampson, C.R.Hoffman, F.G.Kondev, T.Lauritsen, P.J.R.Mason, J.T.Matta, P.J.Nolan, J.Ollier, M.Petri, D.C.Radford, J.P.Revill, S.Zhu, I.Ragnarsson

Persistence of collective behavior at high spin in the N=88 nucleus ¹⁵³Tb

NUCLEAR REACTIONS ¹²⁴Sn(³⁷Cl, 4nα), E=180 MeV; measured Eγ, Iγ, γγ-coin using Gammasphere array at ATLAS-ANL facility. ¹⁵³Tb; deduced high-spin levels, J, π, bands, alignments, configurations. Systematics of yrast states in N=88 isotones ¹⁵²Gd, ¹⁵⁴Dy, ¹⁵⁶Er, ¹⁵⁸Yb, ¹⁵³Tb, ¹⁵⁵Ho, ¹⁵⁷Tm, and Comparison with Nilsson-Strutinsky (CNS) calculations.

doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.91.057301