Superfluid tunneling in the restoration of parity conservation in octupole deformed nuclei
- 1 September 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review C
- Vol. 38 (3) , 1523-1525
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.38.1523
Abstract
There is strong evidence that the nucleus displays both quadrupole and octupole permanent deformations. The observed energy splitting between the associated even- and odd-parity rotational bands can be described in terms of superfluid tunneling in the space of nuclear shapes.
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