RECOIL DISTANCE TRANSIENT FIELD MEASUREMENT IN NB-87 - A NOVEL METHODTO MEASURE NUCLEAR MAGNETIC-MOMENTS

The recoil distance transient field technique in coincidence mode has been used to measure the magnetic moments of the 21/2(+) and 29/2(-) y rast states in Nb-87. This method in conjunction with the use of five highly efficient EUROBALL cluster detectors has for the first time all owed the direct determination of individual g factors of picosecond hi gh-spin states populated in heavy-ion compound-nucleus reactions. The value g(29/2(-)) = +0.56(16) indicates that the five-quasiparticle ban d consists of both an aligned g(9/2) proton and a g(9/2) neutron pair besides the odd p(1/2) proton.