Delayed γ rays from neutron-rich A = 97 fission fragments were measured using the Lohengrin spectrometer at the high-flux reactor of the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble. Several lifetimes of excited states in 97 Sr were measured using the fast-timing technique. The nucleus 97 Sr exhibits shape coexistence and is located exactly at the border of the spherical (N 58) and deformed (N 60) ground-state deformation. It is of particular interest to study the shape-coexisting structures at the spherical-deformed border (N = 59). The determined lifetimes within this work are compared to an interacting boson-fermion model calculation that is based on the microscopic energy density functional to provide a better understanding of the spherical-deformed border in strontium isotopes.
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