Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2003-06-04
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
Presented at Iachello's Fest, Symmetry in Physics, Erice, March 23-30, 2003. Supported by USDOE Grant No. DE-FG02-94ER40870
Scientific paper
In celebrating Iachello's 60th birthday we underline many seminal contributions for the study of the degrees of freddom relevant for the structure of nuclei and other hadrons. A dipole degree of freedom, well described by the spectrum generating algebra U(4) and the Vibron Model, is a most natural concept in molecular physics. It has been suggested by Iachello with much debate, to be most important for understanding the low lying structure of nuclei and other hadrons. After its first observation in $^{18}O$ it was also shown to be relevant for the structure of heavy nuclei (e.g. $^{218}Ra$). Much like the Ar-benzene molecule, it is shown that molecular configurations are important near threshold as exhibited by states with a large halo and strong electric dipole transitions. The cluster-molecular Sum Rule derived by Alhassid, Gai and Bertsch (AGB) is shown to be a very useful model independent tool for examining such dipole molecular structure near thereshold. Accordingly, the dipole strength observed in the halo nuclei such as $^6He, ^{11}Li, ^{11}Be, ^{17}O$, as well as the N=82 isotones is concentrated around threshold and it exhausts a large fraction (close to 100%) of the AGB sum rule, but a small fraction (a few percent) of the TRK sum rule. This is suggested as an evidence for a new soft dipole Vibron like oscillations in nuclei.
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