Intrinsic properties of high-spin band structures in triaxial nuclei

Abstract The band structures of 68,70 Ge, 128,130,132,134 Ce and 132,134,136,138 Nd are investigated using the triaxial projected shell model (TPSM) approach. These nuclei depict forking of the ground-state band into several s-bands and in some cases, both the lowest two observed s-bands depict neutron or proton character. It was discussed in our earlier work that this anomalous behaviour can be explained by considering γ -bands based on two-quasiparticle configurations. As the parent band and the γ -band built on it have the same intrinsic structure, g-factors of the two bands are expected to be similar. In the present work, we have undertaken a detailed investigation of g-factors for the excited band structures of the studied nuclei and the available data for a few high-spin states are shown to be in fair agreement with the predicted values.