Identification and study of the very neutron deficient nuclide I-111: search for octupole correlations in the region of N approximate to Z approximate to 56

High-spin states in the neutron-deficient nuclide I-111 have been populated with the fusion reaction Ni-58 + Ni-58 at a beam energy of 210 MeV, in an experiment performed at the Tandem Accelerator of the Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro. The gamma spectrometer GASP was used in time coincidence with t he ISIS Si-ball and the CAMEL recoil mass spectrometer for the positive ide ntification of the nuclide. Gamma transitions and structure details previou sly attributed to I-111 by Other authors are only partially confirmed. The obtained level scheme includes new rotational bands and a new low lying str ucture which suggests the presence of octupole correlations at predicted ro tational frequency values.