(t,p) reaction studies of 165Dy and 179Hf

Angular distributions for the 163Dy(t,p) and 177Hf(t,p) reactions were measured using 17 MeV tritons from the McMaster University Tandem Van de Graaff accelerator. Reaction products were analyzed with a magnetic spectrograph and detected with photographic emulsions. Favored L=0 transitions confirmed assignments of the 5/2−[523] band in 165Dy and 7/2−[514] band in 179Hf. Additional L=0 transitions in each nuclide identified previously unknown 5/2− levels in 165Dy and 7/2− ones in 179Hf. Overall trends of L=0 strengths support the existence of subshell closures at neutron numbers 98 and 108. On the basis of a relatively strong L=2 transition, the Kπ=11/2−γ-vibration based on the 7/2−[514] state is identified at 1689 keV in 179Hf, about 440 keV above its previously-assigned Kπ=3/2− partner.