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EPJ A - Hadrons and Nuclei
Hadrons and Nuclei
Eur. Phys. J. A 6, 251-255

Favoured superdeformed states in 89Tc

B. Cederwall1 - T. Bäck1 - R. Wyss1 - A. Johnson1 - J. Cederkäll1 - M. Devlin2 - J. Elson2 - D.R. LaFosse2 - F. Lerma2 - D.G. Sarantites2 - R.M. Clark3 - P. Fallon3 - I.Y. Lee3 - A.O. Macchiavelli3 - R.W. Macleod3

1 Department of Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, 104 05 Stockholm, Sweden
2 Chemistry Department, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
3 Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720 USA

Received: 6 July 1999 Communicated by B. Herskind

Abstract
A superdeformed band consisting of a cascade of ten $\gamma$-ray transitions has been identified and assigned to the nucleus 89Tc, close to the proton dripline. The quadrupole moment of the band ( $Q_t = 6.7^{+3.0}_{-2.3}\;eb$, as measured by the Residual Doppler Shift Method) as well as a large dynamic moment of inertia point to a highly elongated shape. With a relative population of approximately 15% of the $\gamma$-ray flux in the 89Tc exit channel, the band is among the most intense superdeformed bands observed to date.

PACS
21.10.Re Collective levels - 21.60.Cs Shell model - 23.20.Lv Gamma transitions and level energies - 27.50.+e 59 $\leq$ A $\leq$ 89

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