Decay from superdeformed yrast states to normal deformed states in $^{193}$Tl

S. Bouneau - et al.

doi:doi:10.1007/s100500050115

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Hadrons and Nuclei

Eur. Phys. J. A 2, 245-248

Short note

Decay from superdeformed yrast states to normal deformed states in ¹⁹³Tl

S. Bouneau¹ - F. Azaiez¹ - J. Duprat¹ - I. Deloncle² - M.G. Porquet² - A. Astier³ - M. Bergström⁴ - C. Bourgeois¹ - L. Ducroux³ - B.J.P. Gall⁵ - M. Kaci¹ - Y. Le Coz⁶ - M. Meyer³ - E.S. Paul⁷ - N. Redon³ - M.A. Riley⁸ - H. Sergolle¹ - J.F. Sharpey-Schafer⁹ - J. Timar¹⁰ - A.N. Wilson¹¹ - R. Wyss¹²

¹ IPN, IN2P3-CNRS, F-91406 Orsay cedex, France
² CSNSM, IN2P3-CNRS, F-91405 Orsay cedex, France
³ IPN, IN2P3-CNRS, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
⁴ The Niels Bhor Institute, University of Copenhagen, Roskilde, Denmark
⁵ IReS, IN2P3-CNRS, F-67037 Strasbourg, France
⁶ DAPNIA, DSM CEA Saclay, F-91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
⁷ Oliver Lodge Laboratory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L693BX, UK
⁸ Dept. of Physics, FSU, Tallahassee, Florida, FL 32306, USA
⁹ NAC, Faure PO Box 72, ZA 7131, South Africa
¹⁰ Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-4001 Debrecen, Hungary
¹¹ Dept. of Physics, University of York, Heslington, YO1 5DD
¹² The Royal Institute of Technology, Physics Department Frescati, Frescativagen 24, S-10405 Stockholm, Sweden

Received: 19 March 1998 Communicated by B. Herskind

Abstract
Three high energy $\gamma$ rays have been observed to connect the two yrast signature-partners superdeformed bands in ¹⁹³Tl to the normal deformed states. Thereby, both excitation energy and spin of these bands are proposed for the first time in an odd-proton nucleus.