Interplay between single particle and collective excitation in V-49

High spin states of V-49 populated through Ti-48(He-4, 2np)V-49 reaction with 48 MeV He-4 beam, have been studied using the Indian National Gamma Array (INGA) facility. The relative intensities, R-DCO and polarization measurements have been carried out for a few transitions in V-49. The level lifetimes have been extracted for a few negative parity yrast levels using Doppler shift attenuation method. Large basis shell model calculations have been performed to understand the microscopic structure of these levels.