Developing the Recoil Distance Doppler-Shift technique towards a versatile tool for lifetime measurements of excited nuclear states

A Dewald, O Möller, P Petkov - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2012 - Elsevier
In this article, the Recoil Distance Doppler-Shift (RDDS) method which is extensively used in
nuclear structure physics to determine level lifetimes and absolute transition probabilities is …

Quantum phase transitions in algebraic and collective models of nuclear structure

L Fortunato - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Quantum Phase Transitions arising in algebraic and collective models of nuclear
structure are reviewed. The concept of quantum phases and phase transitions is described …

Microscopic description of spherical to γ-soft shape transitions in Ba and Xe nuclei

ZP Li, T Nikšić, D Vretenar, J Meng - Physical Review C—Nuclear Physics, 2010 - APS
The rapid transition between spherical and γ-soft shapes in Ba and Xe nuclei in the mass
region A⩾ 130 is analyzed using excitation spectra and collective wave functions obtained …

Formulating the interacting boson model by mean-field methods

K Nomura, N Shimizu, T Otsuka - Physical Review C—Nuclear Physics, 2010 - APS
The interacting boson model (IBM) Hamiltonian is determined microscopically for general
cases of low-lying quadrupole collectivity. Under the assumption that the multinucleon …

Quasi-SU (3) Coupling Induced Oblate-Prolate Shape Phase Transition in the Casten Triangle

K Kaneko, Y Sun, N Shimizu, T Mizusaki - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Shapes and shape evolution in the mass-130 region, including the Te, Xe, and Ba isotopes,
have long been a focus of discussion in nuclear physics. This mass region consists of …

Low-energy nuclear spectroscopy in a microscopic multiphonon approach

NL Iudice, VY Ponomarev, C Stoyanov… - Journal of Physics G …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The low-lying spectra of heavy nuclei are investigated within the quasiparticle–phonon
model. This microscopic approach goes beyond the quasiparticle random-phase …

To shell model, or not to shell model, that is the question

AE Stuchbery, JL Wood - Physics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The present review takes steps from the domain of the shell model into open shell nuclei.
The question posed in the title is to dramatize how far shell model approaches, ie, many …

Evolution of the mixed-symmetry quadrupole-phonon excitation from spherical to -soft Xe nuclei

L Coquard, N Pietralla, G Rainovski, T Ahn… - Physical Review C …, 2010 - APS
Low-lying collective states of Xe 130, 132 have been investigated by γ-ray spectroscopy
following C 12 (Xe, Xe*) C 12 projectile Coulomb excitation. The one-phonon 2 1, ms+ …

Structure of studied in Coulomb excitation measurements

S Kisyov, CY Wu, J Henderson, A Gade, K Kaneko… - Physical Review C, 2022 - APS
The electromagnetic properties of Xe 126, 128 were studied in subbarrier Coulomb
excitation measurements performed at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory …

New γ-soft rotation in the interacting boson model with SU (3) higher-order interactions

T Wang - Chinese Physics C, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The interacting boson model with $ SU (3) $ higher-order interactions offers a new route to
enhance our understanding on γ-soft rotation. In this paper, $ U (5) $-like and $ O (6) $-like …