Abstract
The values of the moment of inertia of the ground-state band of 168Hf from J = 0+ to 22+ are interpreted as involving a revolving cluster with composition increasing steadily from p10.5n14 to p20.5n24, with radius of revolution 6.390 fm. The excited bands from 14+ to 34+, 21- to 33-, and 18- to 30- have nearly the same very large moment of inertia. It is interpreted as involving two caps, each consisting of 11 tritons, on opposite sides of the nearly doubly magic sphere p50n52, the value of the radius of revolution being 6.445 fm.
Keywords: yrast bands, prolate deformation, cluster theory
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