Signature splitting of the πh11/2 band and high-spin structures in 155Tb

Seven experimentally observed bands of 155Tb are analyzed in detail,using the particle-number-conserving method for treating the cranked shell model with monopole and quadrupole pairing interactions.We satisfactorily reproduce the experimental alignments and especially focus on the microscopic mechanism of the second back-bending and the influence of pair interaction on ultrahigh spins.Our calculated results show that the πi13/2 orbitals are too high to give a contribution to the moment of inertia below ω≈ 0.7 MeV.Instead,the crossing between the π[541]1/2 and other proton orbitals is responsible for the second back-bending.We assign a possible configuration to the decoupled band found in 155Tb and predict eleven bands which are experimentally unobserved.