Nuclear shell structure at very high angular momentum

doi:10.1016/0375-9474(76)90461-9

Nuclear Physics A

Volume 268, Issue 2, 14 September 1976, Pages 205-256

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Abstract

A cranked modified-oscillator model (with triaxial shape coordinates ϵ and γ) is used to study the nuclear potential-energy surface (based on a Strutinsky type of shell correction method) for very high angular momenta (30 ≦ I ≦ 100). For this region of spin, pair correlation is assumed to have collapsed. The influence of rapid rotation on the shell structure has been studied in the light and heavy rare-earth region as well as the Te-Ba region. Preliminary studies have also been made in the regions of superheavy and light nuclei. The possible occurrence of yrast traps is discussed.

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^†: On leave from the Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden.

^††: University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.

^†††: The Maria Sklodowska-Curie University, Lublin, Poland.

^†††: The Maria Sklodowska-Curie University, Lublin, Poland.

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