High spin states in 2~176 populated in the z~176 (~,4n) reactions, have been studied using gamma-ray and conversion-electron spectroscopy. Several previously unobserved isomeric transitions were identified by electron-electron coincidence measurements in both isotopes and in 2~ a new isomer was found. The observed states can be explained as arising from couplings of the odd h9/2 proton to neutron states in the neighbouring Pb cores. Reduced transition probabilities are derived and discussed.
ENuclear Reactions: 2~176 (e, 4n), E=50MeV; measured E~,I s, 7(0), e ecoin., T1/2, 2~176 deduced levels, J, ~z, B(E2), e--spectrometers, Si(Li)-, Gedetectors.