Physics Department, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA
School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
Abstract:
Lifetimes for levels in the yrast band of 184Pt have been measured up to spin 16+ using the recoil distance technique. The B(E2) values exhibit a marked increase in going from spin 2 to 10, consistent with a proposal that two bands of different deformations are mixing at low spin. This provides further support for shape coexistence occuring at low excitation energies in this region.