Band terminations in Pd-103 - art. no. 024307

The level scheme of Pd-103 has been reconstructed using high-fold gamma-ray coincidence data obtained with the EUROGAM-2 spectrometer in the Zn-70(S-3 6, 3n) reaction at E = 130 MeV. New spins and excitation energies are given for levels in the strongly coupled positive parity bands. Four high-spin b ands are discussed in terms of terminating configurations using Nilsson-Str utinsky cranking calculations. One of them, having valence-space configurat ion, is observed up to its predicted terminating state of I-pi = 65/2(+). A nother band, which is possibly observed up to its terminating state at I > 40, is assigned to have a 2p-2h core-excited configuration. [S0556-2813(99) 04707-X].