Published November 28, 1994 | Version v1
Journal article

Distribution of low lying quadrupole phonon strength in nuclei

  • 1. Institute of Atomic Physics, Bucharest-Magurele (Romania)
  • 2. Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts 01610 (United States)
  • 3. Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113 (Japan)
  • 4. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973 (United States)
  • 5. Institut fuer Kernphysik, Universitat zu Koeln, D-50937, Koeln (Germany)

Description

The distribution of quadrupole phonon strength to low-lying states in nuclei is examined. It is found that the 21+ and 41+ states of all nuclei from Z=30 to 100 display almost perfect quadrupole phonon character even though they encompass widely ranging structures. The interacting boson approximation reproduces both the very small deviations from phonon purity and the distribution of those deviations as a function of mean field structure in a natural fashion. Simple physical mechanisms explain these results

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
73
Journal Issue
22
Journal Page Range
p. 2962-2965.
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO