Effects of Pairing Correlations on the Antimagnetic Rotation

The antimagnetic rotation bands in 105;¹⁰⁶Cd are investigated by the cranked shell model with pairing correlations treated by a particle-number conserving method, in which the blocking effects are taken into account exactly. The experimental moments of inertia, I-Ω relation and the reduced B(E2) transition probabilities are well reproduced. The two-shears-like mechanism for the antimagnetic rotation is investigated by examining the shears angle, i.e., the closing of the two proton hole angular momenta. The sensitive dependence of the shears angle on the nuclear pairing correlations is revealed.