Multiple Coulomb excitation experiment of 68Zn Original Research Article

Coulomb excitation experiment was carried out with a 68Zn beam bombarding a View the MathML source target. Two E2 matrix elements and the quadrupole moment of the 21+ state were newly derived with the least-squares search code GOSIA. The potential energy surface (PES) was calculated with the Nilsson–Strutinsky model, showing two shallow minima: the first minimum does not contain the 1g9/2 orbit below the Fermi surface, while the second minimum does. The ground state band and the intruder band seem to be constructed on the first and the second minimum, respectively. As for the ground state band, the asymmetric rotor model and the IBM in O(6) limit reproduced the experimental values rather well. The shallow PES may suggest instability of the shape. The ground state band structure may be explained assuming a soft triaxial deformation.