Shape Co-existence in ^174Pt

Nuclei near the region of the proton drip-line and Z = 82 shell have been a subject of great interest with repect to the phenomenon of shape co-existence. In fact, evidence for the spherical, prolate and oblate shapes within the same nucleus has been presented in ^186Pbte1, ^179Hgte2 and ^175Aute3. Deformed ground-state sequences resulting from particle-hole excitations across the Z=82 gap are found to cross the near spherical vacuum structure at low spin(I6). A classic example of this, is found in ^174Ptte4. This nucleus was produced in an experiment following the bombardment of ^92,94Mo targets position with a ^84Sr beam from the ATLAS facility at Argonne National Laboratory. The experiment utilized the GAMMASPHERE array at the target position in conjunction with the Fragment Mass Analyzer(FMA) for mass identification. The ground-state band in ^174Pt has been extended from I = 14^+ to 26^+ and a new side band is observed up to spin greater than (20^-). Based on systematics, it is likely that this sequence is an octupole vibration at low spin, but is crossed by a two-quasiparticle configuration at higher spin. There is also evidence that the side-band in ^174Pt displays transition from a spherical to a more deformed shape, which is similar to the ground-state band.

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