Eur. Phys. J. A (2017) 53: 10
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2017-12204-y

Letter

Structure of a positive-parity band in ¹³⁰Pr

¹ College of Physics, Jilin University, 130012, Changchun, China
² College of Electronic Science & Engineering, Jilin University, 130012, Changchun, China
³ China Institute of Atomic Energy, 102413, Beijing, China

^* e-mail: ljb@jlu.edu.cn

Received: 1 August 2016
Accepted: 4 January 2017
Published online: 23 January 2017

Abstract

High-spin states of ¹³⁰Pr have been populated using the ⁹⁹Ru(³⁵Cl, 2n2p)¹³⁰Pr reaction at a beam energy of 151 MeV. A new positive-parity side band has been identified and possible interpretations on the origin of the side band have been discussed.