Band structures in doubly-odd120I nucleus
Two new collective bands have been identified in120I nucleus from the cross-bombardment results of108Pd(16O,p3n) and114Cd(11B,5n) reactions. Of these, a strongly coupled band, based on πg7/2 ⊗ υh11/2 quasiparticles, exhibits energy staggering in odd even spin states. The other band, based on πh11/2 ⊗ υg7/2 configuration, is decoupled in nature and shows a band-crossing at ħω=0.39 MeV due to alignment of an h11/2 quasineutron pair.