Analytic predictions for nuclear shapes, the prolate dominance and the prolate-oblate shape transition in the proxy-SU(3) model

Abstract

Using a new approximate analytic parameter-free proxy-SU(3) scheme, we make simple predictions of shape observables for deformed nuclei, namely gamma and beta deformation variables, the global feature of prolate dominance and the locus of the prolate-oblate shape transition. The predictions are compared with empirical results.

14 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables

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