2003/01/23 by Dimitri Kusnezov, W. E. Ormand, W. Erich Ormand · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Nuclear physics research studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum chaos and dynamical systems #nucl-ex #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.90.042501
published as Phys.Rev.Lett. 90 (2003) 042501 · 6 pages including 6 figures. To appear in Phys. Rev. Lett. Revtex.
arxiv created 2003/01/23 · openalex publication_date 2003/01/28 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The development of nuclear shapes under the extreme conditions of high angular momentum and/or temperature is examined. Scaling properties are used to demonstrate universal properties of both thermal expectation values of nuclear shapes as well as the minima of the free energy, which can be used to understand the Jacobi transition. A universal correlation between the width of the giant-dipole resonance and quadrupole deformation is found, providing a novel probe to measure the nuclear deformation in hot nuclei.