The Proxy-SU (3) symmetry in atomic nuclei

D Bonatsos, A Martinou, SK Peroulis, TJ Mertzimekis… - Symmetry, 2023 - mdpi.com
The microscopic origins and the current predictions of the proxy-SU (3) symmetry model of
atomic nuclei were reviewed. Beginning with experimental evidence for the special roles …

Gamma spectroscopy with AGATA in its first phases: New insights in nuclear excitations along the nuclear chart

A Bracco, G Duchêne, Z Podolyák, P Reiter - Progress in Particle and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Advanced GAmma Tracking Array (AGATA), the new generation high-
resolution γ-ray spectrometer, has seen the realization of the first phases of its construction …

Analytic predictions for nuclear shapes, prolate dominance, and the prolate-oblate shape transition in the proxy-SU (3) model

D Bonatsos, IE Assimakis, N Minkov, A Martinou… - Physical Review C, 2017 - APS
Using a new approximate analytic parameter-free proxy-SU (3) scheme, we make simple
predictions of shape observables for deformed nuclei, namely γ and β deformation …

Isomeric states observed in heavy neutron-rich nuclei populated in the fragmentation of a Pb beam

SJ Steer, Z Podolyak, S Pietri, M Gorska, H Grawe… - Physical Review C …, 2011 - APS
Heavy neutron-rich nuclei were populated via the fragmentation of a E/A= 1 GeV 208 82 Pb
beam. Secondary fragments were separated and identified and subsequently implanted in a …

Shell-model study for allowed and forbidden decay properties in the mass region “south” of

S Sharma, PC Srivastava, A Kumar, T Suzuki, C Yuan… - Physical Review C, 2024 - APS
The large-scale shell-model calculations have been performed for the neutron-rich nuclei in
the south region of Pb 208 in the nuclear chart. The β-decay properties, such as the log ft …

Microscopic analysis of prolate-oblate shape phase transition and shape coexistence in the Er-Pt region

XQ Yang, LJ Wang, J Xiang, XY Wu, ZP Li - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
The shape transition and possible occurrence of low-energy shape coexistence and rigid
triaxial deformation are analyzed in the six even-even Er, Yb, Hf, W, Os, and Pt isotopic …

Collective structural evolution in neutron-rich Yb, Hf, W, Os, and Pt isotopes

K Nomura, T Otsuka, R Rodríguez-Guzmán… - Physical Review C …, 2011 - APS
An interacting-boson-model Hamiltonian determined from Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov
calculations with the microscopic Gogny energy density functional D1M is applied to the …

Lifetime measurements in low yrast states and spectroscopic peculiarities in

A Harter, A Esmaylzadeh, L Knafla, C Fransen, F Spee… - Physical Review C, 2023 - APS
Lifetimes of the low-lying yrast states 2+, 4+, and 6+ of the unstable nucleus Os 182 were
measured using digital fast-timing techniques. The lifetimes of the 4+ and 6+ states were …

Why nuclear forces favor the highest weight irreducible representations of the fermionic SU (3) symmetry

A Martinou, D Bonatsos, KE Karakatsanis… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
The consequences of the attractive, short-range nucleon–nucleon (NN) interaction on the
wave functions of the Elliott SU (3) and the proxy-SU (3) symmetry are discussed. The NN …

Structural evolution in Pt isotopes with the interacting boson model Hamiltonian derived from the Gogny energy density functional

K Nomura, T Otsuka, R Rodríguez-Guzmán… - Physical Review C …, 2011 - APS
Spectroscopic calculations are carried out for the description of the shape/phase transition in
Pt nuclei in terms of the interacting boson model (IBM) Hamiltonian derived from …