15-19 April 2024
NRF-iThemba LABS, Old Faure Road, Cape Town
Africa/Johannesburg timezone
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Systematics study of ground-state bands in rotating even-even nuclei to reveal triaxial deformation at ground state.

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5m
Auditorium (NRF-iThemba LABS, Old Faure Road, Cape Town)

Auditorium

NRF-iThemba LABS, Old Faure Road, Cape Town

NRF-iThemba LABS Old Faure Road Cape Town GPS Co-ordinates 34.025°S 18.716°E

Speaker

Nkonzo Xulu (Masters student in Nuclear physics)

Description

This projects intends to provide an empirical information on all even-even rotating nuclei, in order todetermine whether they are axially symmetric or triaxil. This is a new idea which the analysis is based entirely on expirimental data and is called coriolis analysis. The coriolis analysis is based on an analysis of the plots of the gamma ray energies(of transitions that belong to a rotational band) as a function of the angular momentum I of the nuclear states. it has no input of parameters. The information that is extracted is applicable for the band of interest, thus one can extract information on the shape analysing each band independently. Our physics motivation comes from what is believed at present that the ground state band in a triaxial nucleus is very similar to that of an axially symmetric nucleus. The presence of triaxility at present is always linked to the observation and the features of the gamma band. We say okay the coriolis analysis is sensitive even to the small difference in the features of the ground state band at different gamma deformations, thus it can reavel information on the nuclear triaxiality.

Primary author

Nkonzo Xulu (Masters student in Nuclear physics)

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