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Nuclear Physics A

Volume 530, Issue 2, 5 August 1991, Pages 452-474
Nuclear Physics A

Superdeformed bands in 189,190Hg

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Abstract

Experiments using the 160Gd(34S, xn) reaction at 159 and 162 MeV have revealed two γ-ray cascades which have properties similar to those of the previously reported superdeformed bands in the heavier Hg isotopes. These sequences have been identified as superdeformed structures in 189Hg and 190Hg. For the band in 190Hg, an average quadrupole moment Q0 = 18 ± 3 e · b was obtained from a DSAM measurement. The data are interpreted within the cranked Woods-Saxon formalism and the rise in the dynamical moment of inertia for both bands is linked to the presence of pair correlations and quasiparticle alignments. For the 189–194Hg superdeformed bands, the variations in the observed population intensity and in the rotational frequencies at which decay out of the bands occur are found to be consistent with the calculated change in the well depth of the superdeformed minimum with mass.

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