Eur. Phys. J. A 17, 153-157 (2003)
DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2002-10157-x

Short Note

Investigations of low- and high-spin states of

Vinod Kumar¹, Pragya Das¹, R.P. Singh², S. Muralithar² and R.K. Bhowmik<sup>2

1</sup>  Physics Department, Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, Powai, Mumbai-400076, India
²  Nuclear Science Centre, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi-110067, India

pragya@phy.iitb.ac.in

(Received: 12 August 2002 / Revised version: 28 February 2003 / Published online: 7 May 2003)

Abstract
The fusion evaporation reaction was used to populate the high-spin states of at the beam energy of 60 MeV. A new band consisting of mostly E2 transitions has been discovered. This band has the interesting links to the ground state 2^- and the isomeric state 6^-. A new transition of energy 351 keV connecting the low-spin states of the positive-parity band based on the particle configuration, has been found. This has played a very important role in resolving the existing ambiguities and inconsistencies in the spin assignment of the band head.

PACS
23.20.Lv - Gamma transitions and level energies.
23.20.En - Angular distribution and correlation measurements.
23.20.Gq - Multipole mixing ratios.
27.60.+j - .

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