Test of the triaxial rotor model and the interacting boson fermion approximation model description of collective states inIr191

Abstract
Coulomb excitation of states in Ir191 up to J=(21/2) has been observed with 160-MeV Ar40 and 617-MeV Xe136 ions. Most of these states are grouped into three rotational-like bands based on the (3/2)+ ground state, the 1/2+ first excited state, and the (7/2)+ γ-vibrational-like state at 686 keV. The average deviation between experimental and theoretical energies for 20 states is 45 keV for the particle-asymmetric-rigid-rotor model and 125 keV for the interacting boson fermion approximation model [limited to broken Spin(6) symmetry, and only the d3/2 orbital is considered]. The overall agreement of both model predictions with experimental γ-ray yields for transitions within the (3/2)+ band is quite good. For interband transitions originating in the K=1/2+ and (7/2)+ bands, the interacting boson fermion approximation model tends to underestimate the γ-ray yields by one to two orders of magnitude. These six moderately collective transitions correspond to Δτ1=2 transitions in the U(6/4) and U(6/20) supersymmetry schemes and are strictly forbidden in these schemes. For both supersymmetric schemes there is a lack of detailed agreement with the very collective E2 transitions which have Δτ1=0,±1. The triaxial rotor model description of the experimental energies and the collective E2 transitions is the most successful approach. The B(E3) for excitation of several negative-parity states in Ir191 is (4±1)B(E3)sp.