Tetrahedral instability in superheavy nuclei

✍ Scribed by Y.S. Chen; Zao-Chun Gao

• Book ID: 103866726
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 323 KB
• Volume: 834
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0375-9474
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2010.01.044

✦ Synopsis

The present study reports the possibility that the tetrahedral symmetry may manifest itself in superheavy elements through the nonaxial octupole Y 32 deformation. The calculations of nonaxial octupole bands are performed by using the Reflection Asymmetric Shell Model for some transfermium nuclei where the spectroscopic data are available, and a very good agreement between theory and experiment has been achieved.