Evolution and Destruction of Shapes in 59Cu
An extensive high-spin level scheme has been established in 59Cu using a heavy-ion fusion evaporation reaction and the GAMMASPHERE multidetector array in conjunction with MICROBALL. Next to the spherical states at low excitation energy a large number of regular sequences of high-energy γ-ray transitions have been observed, which form rotational bands with various degree of deformation. For the yra