Lifetime measurements probing triple shape coexistence in Au-175

Lifetimes of the low-lying excited states in the very neutron-deficient nucleus Au-175 have been measured by the recoil-distance Doppler-shift method using gamma-ray spectra obtained with the recoil-decay tagging technique. Transition quadrupole moments and reduced transition probabilities extracted for this odd-Z nucleus indicate the existence of three different shapes and the competition between collective and noncollective structures.