Yrast spectroscopy of ¹³⁰Nd and evidence of a highly deformed band

D. J. Hartley, W. Reviol^*, L. L. Riedinger, H. Q. Jin^†, B. H. Smith^‡, N. Yoder^§, and O. Zeidan
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996

A. Galindo-Uribarri
Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831

D. G. Sarantites, D. R. LaFosse^**, and J. N. Wilson^††
Chemistry Department, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130

S. M. Mullins^‡‡
Department of Nuclear Physics, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia

^*Present address: Chemistry Department, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130.

^†Present address: NASA Ames Research Laboratory, M/S T27A-1, Moffett Field, CA 94035.

^‡Present address: Viridien Technologies, Inc., Boxborough, MA 01719.

^§Present address: Dallas Theological Seminary, Dallas, TX 75204.

^**Present address: Department of Physics and Astronomy, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794.

^††Present address: Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen DK-2100, Denmark.

^‡‡Present address: National Accelerator Center, P.O. Box 72, Faure ZA-7131, South Africa.