Wobbling motion in nuclei : transverse, longitudinal, and chiral / Nirupama Sensharma

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sensharma, Nirupama, author.

Series:

Springer theses

Springer theses, 2190-5061

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear spin.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 142 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2022]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"This thesis presents significant new observations of nuclear wobbling, and thus expands our understanding of nuclear triaxiality and its prevalence in the nuclear chart. Triaxial nuclear shapes are a very rare phenomena and their experimental identification often relies on two unique signatures nuclear wobbling motion and chiral rotation. While nuclear chirality is a well-studied phenomenon, experimental observations of wobbling nuclei are rather limited. With the identification of 135Pr and 187Au as wobblers, this work establishes triaxiality to be a general phenomenon present in different regions of the nuclear chart, irrespective of any particular spin or deformation. A major focus of this work is the detailed investigation of the different kinds of wobbling modes. Depending on the geometry of the nuclear system, wobbling can be classified into two types longitudinal and transverse. This work has, for the first time, reported evidence of the possible coexistence of both forms of wobbling in a single nucleus. Another important result reported in this work is the very first observation of co-existing chiral and wobbling modes in the 135Pr nucleus. This thesis details the experimental methods that led to this breakthrough, along with pertinent theoretical interpretations"-- Springer Nature Link

Contents:

Background and motivation

Theory

Experimental details

Analysis

Results and theoretical discussion

Updates and future work

Notes:

"Doctoral thesis accepted by University of Notre Dame, USA."

Includes bibliographical references

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Springer Nature Link, viewed June 24, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Sensharma, Nirupama Wobbling motion in nuclei

ISBN:

9783031171505

3031171500

OCLC:

1351662465

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