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High-spin states in 88Mo were studied using the Gammasphere germanium detector array in conjunction with the Microball CsI(Tl) charged-particle detector system. Three γ-ray cascades with dynamic moments of inertia showing similar characteristics to superdeformed rotational bands observed in the neighbouring A= 80 region have been identified and assigned to the nucleus 88Mo. The quadrupole moment of the strongest band, deduced by the Residual Doppler Shift Method, corresponds to a quadrupole deformation of β2≈ 0.6. This confirms the superdeformed nature of this band. The experimental data are interpreted in the framework of total routhian surface calculations. All three bands are assigned to two-quasi-particle proton configurations at superdeformed shape.
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Received: 20 May 1999 / Revised version: 25 August 1999
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Bäck, T., Cederwall, B., Wyss, R. et al. Observation of superdeformed states in 88Mo . EPJ A 6, 391–397 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100500050361
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s100500050361