Review of metastable states in heavy nuclei

GD Dracoulis, PM Walker… - Reports on Progress in …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The structure of nuclear isomeric states is reviewed in the context of their role in
contemporary nuclear physics research. Emphasis is given to high-spin isomers in heavy …

Exotic isomers in deformed atomic nuclei

PM Walker, GD Dracoulis - Hyperfine Interactions, 2001 - Springer
Excited states of atomic nuclei can have long half lives, due to the angular-momentum
couplings of unpaired nucleons. Such isomeric states provide opportunities for exploring …

Casimir force between metallic mirrors

A Lambrecht, S Reynaud - The European Physical Journal D, 2000 - Springer
We study the influence of finite conductivity of metals on the Casimir effect. We put the
emphasis on explicit theoretical evaluations which can help comparing experimental results …

Microscopic analysis of prolate-oblate shape phase transition and shape coexistence in the Er-Pt region

XQ Yang, LJ Wang, J **ang, XY Wu, ZP Li - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
The shape transition and possible occurrence of low-energy shape coexistence and rigid
triaxial deformation are analyzed in the six even-even Er, Yb, Hf, W, Os, and Pt isotopic …

Role of triaxiality in the ground-state shape of neutron-rich Yb, Hf, W, Os and Pt isotopes

LM Robledo, R Rodríguez-Guzmán… - Journal of Physics G …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
The evolution of the ground-state shape of several isotopes of Yb, Hf, W, Os and Pt along the
triaxial landscape is analyzed using the self-consistent Hartree–Fock–Bogoliubov …

Isomeric states observed in heavy neutron-rich nuclei populated in the fragmentation of a Pb beam

SJ Steer, Z Podolyak, S Pietri, M Gorska, H Grawe… - Physical Review C …, 2011 - APS
Heavy neutron-rich nuclei were populated via the fragmentation of a E/A= 1 GeV 208 82 Pb
beam. Secondary fragments were separated and identified and subsequently implanted in a …

Shape transitions in neutron-rich Yb, Hf, W, Os, and Pt isotopes within a Skyrme Hartree-Fock+ BCS approach

P Sarriguren, R Rodríguez-Guzmán, LM Robledo - Physical Review C …, 2008 - APS
Self-consistent axially symmetric Skyrme Hartree-Fock plus BCS calculations are performed
to study the evolution of shapes with the number of nucleons in various chains of Yb, Hf, W …

Collective structural evolution in neutron-rich Yb, Hf, W, Os, and Pt isotopes

K Nomura, T Otsuka, R Rodríguez-Guzmán… - Physical Review C …, 2011 - APS
An interacting-boson-model Hamiltonian determined from Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov
calculations with the microscopic Gogny energy density functional D1M is applied to the …

Mean field study of structural changes in Pt isotopes with the Gogny interaction

R Rodríguez-Guzmán, P Sarriguren, LM Robledo… - Physical Review C …, 2010 - APS
The evolution of the nuclear shapes along the triaxial landscape is studied in the Pt isotopic
chain using the self-consistent Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov approximation based on the Gogny …

Discovery of highly excited long-lived isomers in neutron-rich hafnium and tantalum isotopes through direct mass measurements

MW Reed, IJ Cullen, PM Walker, YA Litvinov, K Blaum… - Physical review …, 2010 - APS
A study of cooled Au 197 projectile-fragmentation products has been performed with a
storage ring. This has enabled metastable nuclear excitations with energies up to 3 MeV …