Triaxial nuclear shapes from simple ratios of electric-quadrupole matrix elements

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dc.contributor.authorOrce, José Nicolás
dc.contributor.authorLawrie, Elena Atanassova
dc.date.accessioned2025-10-09T13:48:12Z
dc.date.available2025-10-09T13:48:12Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractTheoretical models often invoke axially-asymmetric nuclear shapes to explain elusive collective phenomena, but such an assumption is not always easy to confirm experimentally. The only model-independent measurement of the nuclear axial asymmetry (or triaxiality) γ is based on rotational invariants of zero-coupled products of the electric-quadrupole (E2) operator — the Kumar-Cline sum rule analysis — which generally requires knowledge of a large number of E2 matrix elements connecting the state of interest. We propose an alternative method to determine γ using only two E2 matrix elements, which are among the easiest to measure. This approach is based on a standard rotational description of a nucleus with stable triaxial deformation, where all underlying assumptions are either empirically proven or unnecessary. It is applied to the 2+ states of the ground-state and the γ bands of even–even nuclei and is model-independent provided these 2+ states have rotational nature. This technique was applied to a number of deformed even–even nuclei for which the ratio of the energies of the yrast 4+ and 2+ states was R4/2> 2.4. Where sufficient experimental data were available for performing Kumar-Cline analysis, good agreement was observed between the γ values deduced in these two approaches. The agreement shows that (i) the 2+ states of the selected nuclei have indeed rotational nature, and (ii) the proposed method represents a simple and reliable deduction of γ. In the present work more than 60 even–even rotating nuclei were associated with axially-asymmetric nuclear shapes.
dc.identifier.citationLawrie, E.A. and Orce, J.N., 2024. Triaxial nuclear shapes from simple ratios of electric-quadrupole matrix elements. arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.08130.
dc.identifier.issnhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.adt.2025.101730
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/21047
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevier Inc.
dc.subjectElectric-quadrupole matrix elements
dc.subjectIrrotational flow model
dc.subjectModel-independent evaluation of γ
dc.subjectMulti-step Coulomb excitation
dc.subjectQuadrupole deformation
dc.titleTriaxial nuclear shapes from simple ratios of electric-quadrupole matrix elements
dc.typeArticle

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