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Search for low spin collective structures in 158Er and 159Er

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / Lying in a rapidly-changing transitional region between nuclei that may behave
as spherical vibrators (N ≤ 88) or good rotors (N ≥ 92), the N = 90 isotones present a unique testing ground where new nuclear collective phenomena may be uncovered. As part of a general investigation of collective structures and the coupling of single-particle states to these structures, the 150Sm(12C,4nγγ) and
150Sm(13C,4nγγ) reactions at a beam energy of Elab = 65 MeV were used to
study the low and medium spin structure of 158,159Er nuclei below spin 20~.
The γ-γ coincidence events were detected in the nine escape-suppressed HPGe Clover detectors using the AFRODITE γ-ray spectrometer at the iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator Based Sciences. DCO ratios and γ-ray polarization measurements were used to establish the spins and parities of newly observed and confirm previously established rotational bands. The observed bands will be discussed in terms of both traditional quadrupole rotational-vibration models and recent predictions of octupole correlations in the N = 90 isotones and neighbouring nuclei. The data obtained will be compared with the spectroscopic systematics of neighbouring nuclei.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uwc/oai:etd.uwc.ac.za:11394/3245
Date January 2013
CreatorsDinoko, Tshepo Samuel
ContributorsOrce, Nico, Sharpey-Schafer, John F., Wiedeking, Mathis
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
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