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Phys. Rev. C 57, R1 - R5 (1998)

Triaxial superdeformed bands in 86Zr

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D. G. Sarantites1, D. R. LaFosse1 *, M. Devlin1, F. Lerma1, V. Q. Wood2, J. X. Saladin2, D. F. Winchell2, C. Baktash3, C.-H. Yu3, P. Fallon4, I. Y. Lee4, A. O. Macchiavelli4, R. W. MacLeod4, A. V. Afanasjev5 †, and I. Ragnarsson5
1Chemistry Department, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130
2Physics Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260
3Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831
4Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
5Department of Mathematical Physics, Lund Institute of Technology, Box 118, S-22100 Lund, Sweden

Rapid Communication Received 22 August 1997

Four new superdeformed bands have been found in the nucleus 86Zr. The good agreement between experiment and configuration-dependent shell correction calculations suggests that three of the bands have triaxial superdeformed shapes. Such unique features in mass A∼80 superdeformed bands have been predicted, but not observed experimentally until now. A fourth band in 86Zr is interesting due to a fairly constant and unusually high dynamic moment of inertia. Possible interpretations of this structure are discussed.


©1998 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevC.57.R1
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.57.R1
PACS: 21.10.Re, 21.60.Cs, 23.20.Lv, 27.50.+e

* Current address: Department of Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794.
† Permanent address: Nuclear Research Center, Latvian Academy of Sciences, Salaspils, Latvia, LV-2169.

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