Evidence for shape coexistence at medium spin in Rb-76

• Four previously known rotational bands in Rb-76 have been extended to moderate spins using the Gammasphere and Microball gamma ray and charged particle detector arrays and the Ca-40(Ca-40,3pn) reaction at a beam energy of 165 MeV. The properties of two of the negative-parity bands can only readily be interpreted in terms of the highly successful Cranked Nilsson-Strutinsky model calculations if they have the same configuration in terms of the number of g(9/2) particles, but they result from different nuclear shapes (one near-oblate and the other near-prolate). These data appear to constitute a unique example of shape coexisting structures at medium spins. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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level scheme for Rb-76

Cranked Nilsson-Strutinsky model calculations

high-fold gamma ray coincidences

arrays

Measured E-gamma

NUCLEAR REACTION Ca-40+Ca-40 at 165 MeV

Gammasphere and Microball

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