Eur. Phys. J. A (2005) 25: 449-450
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjad/i2005-06-058-4

ENAM 2004

Probing the three shapes in ¹⁸⁶Pb using in-beam γ-ray spectroscopy

¹ Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014, Jyväskylä, Finland
² Oliver Lodge Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, L69 7ZE, Liverpool, UK
³ Department of Physics, University of York, Y01 5DD, Heslington, York, UK

^* e-mail: janne.pakarinen@phys.jyu.fi

Received: 2 December 2004
Accepted: 18 February 2005
Published online: 3 May 2005

Abstract

This measurement represents the first observation of a non-yrast band in the ¹⁸⁶Pb nucleus by employing the Recoil-Decay Tagging (RDT) technique. Previously known yrast levels have been confirmed and the band is extended up to level I ^π = (16⁺).