LINKING TRANSITIONS BETWEEN THE HIGHLY DEFORMED STATES AND THE YRAST STATES OF NORMAL DEFORMATION IN ND-133

Transitions linking the highly deformed band to low deformation states have been unambiguously established in 133Nd in the very first experiment performed with the GASP array. The highly deformed band becomes yrast at 29/2+, where it mixes with the positive parity band built upon the [404]7/2 Nilsson state. The experimentally deduced interaction amounts to 13 keV. The measurement of the spins in the highly deformed intruder band sheds some light upon the reported backbend anomaly in this mass region.