Abstract
A superdeformed band has been found in . It is populated with 1.2(2)% of the total γ-ray intensity that decayed into via the reaction Al,5nEu at 152 MeV. The strength of the band is similar to that previously reported in , where the superdeformed band is populated with an intensity of 1.1(1)%. This is unexpected, since both total Routhian surface (TRS) and cranked modified oscillator (MO) calculations predict that the superdeformed band in becomes yrast at lower spin than that in . This difference is ∼4ħ in the MO calculations and ∼8ħ in the TRS. Extrapolation of the ‘‘normal’’-deformed yrast states in shows, however, that a difference of ∼8ħ in spin corresponds to a change in the relative energy of the superdeformed and normal-deformed yrast lines of only ∼1 MeV.
- Received 16 March 1995
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.52.99
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