THE STRUCTURE AND SPECTROSCOPY OF RA-219

The reassignment of spins in the low lying level structure of Ra-219 obtained from the alpha decay of 223Th and minor changes in the spins and the position of the first observed state in the spectroscopy from the nuclear reaction studies Pb-208 (C-14, 3n) Ra-219 make possible the correlation of these two level structures which were previously unconnected. The resulting level structure shows very tentative K = 1/2+/- and 5/2+/- parity doublet bands and their evolution from anomalous rotational structures into vibrational like bands with alternating spins and opposite parities, reminiscent of weak coupling to an octupole correlated core. The comparison and contrast of the isobars Ra-219 and Fr-219 is also presented.