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Tidal waves in 102Pd: a rotating condensate of multiple d bosons
A D Ayangeakaa1, U Garg, M A Caprio
1Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA.
Abstract:
Low-lying collective excitations in even-even vibrational and transitional nuclei may be described semiclassically as quadrupole running waves on the surface of the nucleus ("tidal waves"), and the observed vibrational-rotational behavior can be thought of as resulting from a rotating condensate of interacting d bosons. These concepts have been investigated by measuring lifetimes of the levels in the yrast band of the (102)Pd nucleus with the Doppler shift attenuation method. The extracted B(E2) reduced transition probabilities for the yrast band display a monotonic increase with spin, in agreement with the interpretation based on rotation-induced condensation of aligned d bosons.
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