Coexistence of normal, super-, and hyper-deformation in nuclei: A study   with angular momentum projection
  Angular-momentum-projected energy surface calculations for A~110 nuclei indicate three distinct energy minima occurring at different angular-momenta. These correspond to normal, super-, and hyper-deformed shapes coexisting in one nucleus. 110Pd is studied in detail, with a quantitative prediction on super- and hyper-deformed spectra by the Projected Shell Model calculation. It is suggested that several other neighboring nuclei in the A-110 mass region, with the neutron number around 64, also exhibit clear super- and hyper-deformation minima. 
Yang Sun, Jing-ye Zhang, Gui-Lu Long, Cheng-Li Wu