https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2012-12099-0
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
In-beam spectroscopy of 72Ge
1
Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
2
University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa
3
Ithemba Labs, Somerset West, South Africa
4
University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
5
University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
Received:
8
March
2012
Accepted:
4
July
2012
Published online:
26
July
2012
High-spin states in the nucleus 72Ge were investigated via the 70Zn(
, 2n)72Ge reaction at a beam energy of 30MeV, using the AFRODITE spectrometer. One aim of the study was to search for tetrahedral states. There was no evidence for such states in our coincidence data. The existing decay scheme was substantially revised and extended. Several 
-ray placements and level spin-parities were changed, and some 30 new transitions were added to the level scheme. One new negative-parity rotational band was identified. The new band is likely the unfavoured signature partner of the band built on the previously known 
state at 2515keV. The two negative-parity bands are interpreted as involving an aligned octupole vibration which evolves to a four-quasiparticle structure at higher spins. The upbend in the yrast band is interpreted as the AB neutron alignment. The band structures are discussed with reference to Cranked Shell Model calculations, the aligned angular momenta, experimental routhians, and moments of inertia.
© SIF, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2012
