Speaker
Dr
Dinesh Negi
(Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, Mumbai, India)
Description
Mercury isotopes in the A~190-200 region are host to a variety of particle-rotor coupling mechanisms leading to the generation of high spin states. In the present work, we report on the spectroscopic study of decoupled and semi-decoupled bands in 197Hg and 199Hg isotopes. High spin states in these nuclei were populated using multi-nucleon transfer reactions between a 1450-MeV 209Bi beam and a 197Au target and the GAMMASPHERE facility at ANL, USA was utilized. In 199Hg, a three-quasiparticle structure after the BC crossing in the decoupled band has been observed for the first time in this work. Semi-decoupled structures have been extended in both 197,199Hg. A systematic study of structure across Hg isotopes in this mass region reveals the effect of the N=120 subshell gap in 199Hg and 200Hg. Cranking calculations are in agreement with the band crossing frequency and aligned angular momentum observed for the decoupled band in both odd-A isotopes. Potential energy surface calculations suggest that the shape of nucleus changes from moderately oblate near the 13/2+ bandhead to weakly-deformed triaxial at high spin.
Primary author
Dr
Dinesh Negi
(Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, Mumbai, India)
