“…Further information on collective structures in neutrondeficient Hg nuclei was provided by measurements of γray transition strengths. Lifetimes of excited states were measured for several neutron-deficient species, populated via fusion-evaporation reactions: the 178 Hg [21], 180,182 Hg [22,23], and 184,186 Hg [16,24,25] nuclei were studied using the recoil-distance Doppler-shift (RDDS) method, while the Doppler-shift attenuation method (DSAM) and the β-tagged fast-timing (FT) techniques were employed to investigate the 184 Hg [26] and 186,188 Hg [14,27] isotopes, respectively. Moreover, the lifetimes of low-lying states in [190][191][192][193][194][195][196] Hg isotopes, which could not be obtained via RDDS method due to the presence of low-lying isomers, were recently measured via the FT technique [27,28].…”