Coulomb excitation of {sup 156}Gd

Multiple Coulomb-excitation experiments for {sup 156}Gd were made with a 118 MeV {sup 32}S beam and a 225 MeV {sup 58}Ni beam. The ground-state band, the {beta} band (K=0{sup +}), another K=0{sup +} band, and the {gamma} band (K=2{sup +}) were observed up to the 18{sup +}, 14{sup +}, 8{sup +}, and 12{sup +} states, respectively, while the octupole band (K=1{sup -}) was observed up to the 15{sup -} state, through the analysis of particle-{gamma}-{gamma} data. Compared with the results of the in-beam {gamma}-ray spectroscopy previously obtained, the present result suggests that a band crossing occurs in the {gamma} band. As for the {beta} band, the excitation energy of the 12{sup +} state was revised and the 14{sup +} state was newly observed in the present experiment. The intrinsic matrix elements entering the generalized intensity relations were obtained so as to reproduce the spin dependence of the E2 matrix elements extracted from the experimental results of particle-{gamma} angular correlation for the transitions within each band and between each band and the ground-state band by the least-squares search code gosia. The change of characters in the {beta} and {gamma} bands is discussed as a possible cause for the variation of themore » E2 matrix elements in the higher-spin region. The intrinsic matrix elements were also obtained for the E1 and E3 transitions from the ground-state band to the octupole band with K=1{sup -} through analysis by gosia.« less