Systematics of band moment of inertia of yrast and excited SD bands of even–even nuclei in A~150 mass region

Abstract

A four parameter formula has been applied to all the yrast and excited superdeformed (SD) bands of even–even nuclei in the A~150 mass region to obtain band moment of inertia J0. In even–even nuclei, totally three yrast SD bands and 16 excited SD bands have been fitted. The measured Qt values and hence the axes ratios have been used to calculate the rigid body J0 values and compared with the fitted values of J0. It is interesting to look at the yrast SD band 152 Dy (1), the doubly magic SD nucleus and the first one to be discovered that the J0 values are quite larger than that extracted from Qt measurement. We found that all the excited SD bands in even–even nuclei are signature partner SD bands because the J0 value of each signature partner SD band is almost identical. Among all these excited SD bands, 150 Gd (4) is found to be super-rigid in nature having J0 value larger than that observed from the measured Qt value.