Observation and Quadrupole Moment Measurement of the First Superdeformed Band in the A~60 Mass Region
- Svensson, C. E.
- Baktash, C.
- Cameron, J. A.
- Devlin, M.
- Eberth, J.
- Flibotte, S.
- Haslip, D. S.
- LaFosse, D. R.
- Lee, I. Y.
- Macchiavelli, A. O.
- MacLeod, R. W.
- Nieminen, J. M.
- Paul, S. D.
- Riedinger, L. L.
- Rudolph, Dirk
- Sarantites, D. G.
- Thomas, H. G.
- Waddington, J. C.
- Weintraub, W.
- Wilson, J. N.
- Afanasjev, A. V.
- Ragnarsson, Ingemar
Publication date
January 1997
DOI Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)Abstract
A high-spin rotational cascade of six gamma rays has been observed in Zn-62. The quadrupole moment of 2.7(-0.5)(+0.7) e b measured for this band corresponds to a deformation beta(2) = 0.45(-0.07)(+0.10). The properties of this band are in excellent agreement with calculations that predict high-spin superdeformed bands in Zn-62 with deformations beta(2) = 0.41-0.49. These results establish a new region of superdeformation for nuclei with neutron and proton numbers N, Z approximate to 30-32
