The superdeformed excited band of Ca-40
  The superdeformed band, recently discovered in Ca-40 is analysed in an spherical shell model context. Two major oscillator shells, sd and pf are necessary to describe it. The yrast band of the fixed 8p-8h configuration fits extremely well with the experimental energies and transition rates of the superdeformed band. The 4p-4h configuration generates a normally deformed band plus a gamma-band pattern, both are also present in the experimental data. 
E. Caurier (a), F. Nowacki (a), A. Poves (b) and A. Zuker (a) ((a)   IReS, In2p3, Universite Louis Pasteur (b) Departamento ...