Oblate deformed shapes of hot rotating nuclei deduced from giant-dipole-resonance decay studies
- 12 November 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 65 (20) , 2523-2526
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.65.2523
Abstract
The spectrum shape and the angular distribution of γ rays from highly excited and rotating and compound nuclei were measured and analyzed. The results are in good agreement with theory including both intrinsic-shape fluctuations and shape-orientation fluctuations about an equilibrium shape which changes from spherical to oblate deformed with increasing spin.
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