Collective quadrupole excitations in transitional nuclei

The generalized Bohr Hamiltonian was used to describe the low-lying collect ive excitations in even-even isotopes of Ru, Pd, Te, Pa and Nd. The Strutin sky collective potential and cranking inertial functions were obtained usin g the Nilsson potential. The effect of coupling with the pairing vibrations is taken into account approximately when determining the inertial function s. The calculation does not contain any free parameter.