Coulomb excitation study of ${}_{}{}^{235}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{U}$: Assessment of theoretical quasiparticle states

Coulomb excitation experiments have been performed on ${}_{}{}^{235}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{U}$ targets with 370 and 450 MeV ${}_{}{}^{84}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{Kr}$ projectiles. The deduced experimental level scheme exhibits 11 band structures developed up to high spins. A rotor-plus-quasiparticle microscopic approach, free of any ad hoc parameter adjustment, has been applied to this nucleus yielding a very good reproduction of band-head energies, moments of inertia, multipole moments, and transition probabilities, which assesses the relevance of the underlying Hartree-Fock plus BCS mean field description.