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Title: The fundamental role of symmetry in nuclear models

Journal Article · · AIP Conference Proceedings
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4810815· OSTI ID:22118580
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  1. Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7 (Canada)

The purpose of these lectures is to illustrate how symmetry and pattern recognition play essential roles in the progression from experimental observation to an understanding of nuclear phenomena in terms of interacting neutrons and protons. We do not discuss weak interactions nor relativistic and sub-nucleon degrees of freedom. The explicit use of symmetry and the power of algebraic methods, in combination with analytical and geometrical methods are illustrated by their use in deriving a shell-model description of nuclear rotational dynamics and the structure of deformed nuclei.

OSTI ID:
22118580
Journal Information:
AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1541, Issue 1; Conference: La Rabida 2012 international scientific meeting on nuclear physics: Basic concepts in nuclear physics: Theory, experiments, and applications, La Rabida (Spain), 9-13 Sep 2013; Other Information: (c) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English