Probing the shape of $^{176} Hg$ along the yrast line

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1 December 1998

journal article
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Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review C

Vol. 58 (6) , R3033-R3036
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.58.r3033

Abstract

In-beam γ-ray and γ-γ coincidence measurements have been made for the very neutron-deficient nucleus

^{176} Hg

using the recoil-decay tagging (RDT) technique. The irregular yrast sequence observed up to

I = 10 ħ

indicates that the prolate intruder band, seen in heavier Hg isotopes near the neutron midshell, crosses the nearly spherical ground-state band of

^{176} Hg

above

I = 6 ħ .

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