Measurement of the intrinsic quadrupole moments in the upsilon i 13/2 bands of 135,137Sm

P. H. Regan*, R. Wadsworth, S. M. Mullins, J. Nyberg, A. Atac, S. A. Forbes, D. B. Fossan, Y. -J.he, J. R. Hughes, I. Jenkins, R. Ma, M. S. Metcalfe, P. J. Nolan, E. S. Paul, R. J. Poynter, D. Santonicio, A. Virtanen, N. Xu

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Abstract

The quadrupole moments of the upsilon i13/2 intruder bands in 135,135Sm have been deduced from nuclear lifetimes measured using the Doppler shift attenuation method. A centroid shift analysis of the data yielded values of Q0=7.0 eb and 5.0 eb for 135Sm and 137Sm respectively. The value for the band in 135Sm is the largest yet measured for an odd-N nucleus in this mass region and is consistent with the deformations of superdeformed (SD) bands in this mass region. This implies that the odd-N SD and single upsilon i13/2 intruder bands wound mass 135 are all based on the same single particle configuration, upsilon 61. In addition, a lineshape analysis has been performed on the 135Sm data in order to assess the nature of the sidefeeding into the band. The results indicate a value for the static quadrupole moment which is consistent with that obtained using the centroid shift method. There is little evidence of any significantly slow sidefeeding component in the lineshapes.

Original languageEnglish
Article number013
Pages (from-to)847-858
Number of pages12
JournalJournal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Volume18
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1992

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