Speaker
Prof.
B. Cederwall
(Department of Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Roslagstullsbacken 21, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden)
Description
Recent advancements in experimental techniques now enable us to study not only excited-state energies but also electromagnetic transition strengths across long isotopic chains. In particular, the reduced electric quadrupole transition probability, B(E2), connecting the lowest-lying states directly probes the corresponding wave functions and hence provides stringent tests of theory.
The results obtained, e.g. in the rare earth region, reveal some striking differences and deficiencies in the predictive power of current nuclear structure models.
Primary author
Prof.
B. Cederwall
(Department of Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Roslagstullsbacken 21, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden)
