Coexistence of low- Oblate and High- Prolate Proton-hole Bands in Sb
Shabir Dar (Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, India); S. Bhattacharyya (Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, India)
; S. Chakraborty (Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India); S. Jehangir (Department of Physics, Islamic University of Science and Technology, Awantipora, India); Soumik Bhattacharya (Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India); et al - Show all 26 authors
A positive parity sequence of γ transitions has been identified above state ( keV) in $^{115}$Sb through in-beam γ ray spectroscopic technique. Rotational features of this sequence are found similar to a low-K decoupled band. Observation of this newly identified low-K decoupled band, along with the earlier reported strongly coupled high-K band in this nucleus, provides the first experimental evidence for prolate-oblate shape coexistence associated with proton-hole configuration around shell closure. Experimental results are reproduced reasonably well in the frameworks of the projected shell model and the total Routhian surface calculations.