Properties of the low-lying levels in the transitional Ir and Au nuclei

We try to determine to what extent an “axial prolate rotor +1 or 2 quasiparticle model” succeeds in describing the transitional odd and odd-odd Ir and Au nuclei. The relative location of the excited states, as well as the properties of the ground and isomeric states, particularly the magnetic and spectroscopic quadrupole moments, is compared to the predictions of the model.