Jk. Hwang et al., IDENTIFICATION OF THE NU(3 2)-[521] BAND IN ND-153 AND THE GAMMA-TRANSITIONS IN ND-149/, International journal of modern physics E, 6(2), 1997, pp. 331-339
From an experiment with Gammasphere and a Cf-252 spontaneous fission s
ource, two bands with signatures -i and +i are identified in Nd-153. A
lso several transitions in Nd-149 are observed for the first time. The
band with signature -i in Nd-153 shows no back bending, similar to th
e one observed in Er-161. The signature splitting observed in the grou
nd band of Nd-153 is similar to the ones observed in N = 93 isotones i
n this mass region. In Nd-149 the new transitions are placed into a ba
nd with a proposed configuration of nu(11/2)-[505].