MICROSCOPIC SIMULATIONS OF GAMMA-CASCADES IN WARM ROTATING NUCLEI

The gamma decay of the excited rotating Yb-168 nucleus has been simula ted considering the competition between El and E2 transitions, using m icroscopically calculated rotational bands. The simulations were made for two different cases: (i) pure rotating mean field bands and (ii) r otational bands mixed by a residual interaction. Simulated gamma-gamma spectra were analyzed in the typical rotational ridge-valley region. The fluctuation analysis method, sensitive to the effective number of gamma-decay paths, was also applied. An overall agreement between expe rimental and simulated data is found for the case of mixed rotational bands.