Eur. Phys. J. A (2012) 48: 107
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2012-12107-5

Regular Article - Experimental Physics

Four-quasiparticle high-K band in ¹³⁰Ce

¹ Oliver Lodge Laboratory, University of Liverpool, L69 7ZE, Liverpool, UK
² Department of Physics, University of York, YO10 5DD, Heslington, York, UK

^* e-mail: esp@ns.ph.liv.ac.uk

Received: 13 March 2012
Revised: 10 July 2012
Accepted: 20 July 2012
Published online: 3 August 2012

Abstract

High-spin states have been populated in ¹³⁰Ce, using the ¹⁰⁰Mo(³⁴S, 4nγ) reaction at 155 MeV. A new strongly coupled structure has been found and is interpreted as based on a mixed neutron-proton high-K four-quasiparticle configuration.