Pseudospin as a Relativistic Symmetry

1996/11/22 by Joseph N. Ginocchio · 5 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Nuclear physics research studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum chaos and dynamical systems #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.78.436

published as Phys.Rev.Lett. 78 (1997) 436-439 · 10 pages, latex, two figures given on request, LA-UR-96-3719, to be published in PRL

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Abstract

We show that pseudo - spin symmetry in nuclei could arise from nucleons moving in a relativistic mean field which has an attractive scalar and repulsive vector potential nearly equal in magnitude.

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