P CHOWDHURY

Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell,  Lowell MA 01854, USA

Abstract.

Advances in experimental techniques are discussed for the study of long-lived isomers using gammasphere. Spectroscopy of neutron-rich nuclei in the A ~ 180 region is made possible for the first time via neutron transfer from heavy beams, and long-predicted high-K isomers are observed.

Keywords:  K-isomers; delayed g--g--D t;neutron-rich Hf; multi-quasiparticle states.

Pacs Nos.  21.10.Tg; 23.20.Lv; 27.70.+q