GLOBAL SYSTEMATICS OF UNIQUE PARITY QUASI-BANDS IN ODD-A COLLECTIVE NUCLEI

All known structures in the collective medium and heavy odd-A nuclei, based on the unique parity orbitals g9/2, h11/2, and i13/2, are collected and correlations between the energies within both the favored and unfavored quasibands are analyzed. A first startling result is that irrespective of the nature of the odd particle and the shell model orbital, for most of the nondeformed nuclei the energies within these quasibands show a universal behavior of an anharmonic vibrator with a constant anharmonicity, identical with that found for the even-even nuclei. Second, the rapid transition between the anharmonic vibrator and the rotor regimes, which takes place in the even-even nuclei, is accompanied, in the adjacent odd-A nuclei, by an equally rapid transition from the anharmonic vibrator to the strong coupling regime.