Excitation energy of superdeformed bands in Relativistic Mean Field theory

Constrained Relativistic Mean Field (RMF) calculations have been carried out to estimate excitation energies relative to the ground state for superdeformed bands in the mass regions A ∼ 190 and A ∼ 150. It is shown that RMF theory is able to successfully reproduce the recently measured superdeformed minima in Hg and Pb nuclei.