https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202430404005
Seven years of the proxy-SU(3) shell model symmetry
1 Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics, National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, GR-15310 Aghia Paraskevi, Attiki, Greece
2 Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Zografou Campus, GR-15784 Athens, Greece
3 Institute of Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 72 Tzarigrad Road, 1784 Sofia, Bulgaria
Published online: 8 October 2024
The proxy-SU(3) symmetry was first presented in HINPw4 in Ioannina in May2017, justified within the Nilsson model and applied to parameter-free predictions of the collective variables β and γ in medium-mass and heavy nuclei. Major steps forward, including the connection of the proxy-SU(3) symmetry to the shell model, the justification of the dominance of highest weight states in terms of the short range nature of the nucleon-nucleon interaction, as well as the first proposal of appearance of islands of shape coexistence on the nuclear chart, have been presented in HINPw6 in Athens in May 2021. The recently hot topic of the prevalence of triaxial shapes in heavy nuclei will also be briefly outlined in the proxy-SU(3) framework.
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