Prolate dominance and prolate-oblate shape transition in the proxy-SU(3) model

2017/06/19 by Bonatsos, Dennis, Assimakis, I. E., Minkov, N. +5
#FOS: Physical sciences #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1706.05844

Abstract

Using a new approximate analytic parameter-free proxy-SU(3) scheme, we make simple predictions for the global feature of prolate dominance in deformed nuclei and the locus of the prolate-oblate shape transition and compare these with empirical data.

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