Investigation of antimagnetic rotation in light Cadmium nuclei: Cd-106,Cd-108

A J Simons, R Wadsworth, D G Jenkins, R M Clark, M Cromaz, M A Deleplanque, R M Diamond, P Fallon, G J Lane, I Y Lee, A O Macchiavelli, F S Stephens, C E Svensson, K Vetter, D Ward, S Frauendorf, Y Gu

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Abstract

The lifetimes of excited states belonging to the lowest lying positive-parity bands in Cd-106,Cd-108 have been measured using the Doppler-shift attenuation method. The resulting B(E2) transition rates show a significant decrease with increasing spin in Cd-106, whereas in Cd-108 there is tentative evidence for a similar effect. The results are compared with cranking and semiclassical model calculations, which indicate that the structures have the properties expected from an "antimagnetic" rotational band resulting from the coupling of g(9/2) proton holes to aligned pairs of h(11/2) and g(7/2) neutron particles.

Original languageEnglish
Article number024318
Pages (from-to)-
Number of pages7
JournalPhysical Review C
Volume72
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2005

Keywords

  • SHEARS MECHANISM
  • A-SIMILAR-TO-110 REGION
  • COLLECTIVITY
  • CD-108
  • PROTON
  • BANDS

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