High-spin states in Au-191 : Evidence for triaxial shape?

The level scheme of Au-191 was considerably extended to high spin using gamma spectroscopy with the Eurogam-II array and internal conversion measurements with the Orsay electron spectrometer. Several bands that appear as strongly coupled were associated with low- Omega configurations in Au-191 . Using total routhian surface and cranked shell model calculations it was shown that these bands have a rotation-aligned nature and are most likely generated by the nonaxiallity of the nucleus induced by the odd proton. The predictions for the presence of such bands in Au-191 and in the oblate nuclei in the Pt-Au-Hg region found excellent agreement with the experimental data, as well as the predictions for their alignments and band-crossing frequencies in Au-191 .

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