Eur. Phys. J. A 15, 449-454 (2002)
DOI: 10.1140/epja/i2002-10064-2

Configuration-mixed effective symmetries

P.O. Hess¹, A. Algora^{2, 3}, M. Hunyadi^{2, 4} and J. Cseh<sup>2

1</sup>  Instituto Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM, A.P. 70-543, 04510, México, D. F., Mexico
²  Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-4001 Debrecen, Pf. 51, Hungary
³  IFIC-Universitat Valencia, Apartado Oficial 22085, 46071 Valencia, Spain
⁴  KVI, 9747 AA Groningen, The Netherlands

hess@nuclear.unam.mx

(Received: 23 April 2002/ Revised version: 10 July 2002 / Published online: 10 December 2002)

Abstract
The procedure of Jarrio et al. (Nucl. Phys. A 528, 409 (1991)) for the determination of the effective SU(3) symmetry of nuclear states is extended to small deformations and to oblate nuclei. Self-consistency checks are carried out both for light and for heavy nuclei.

PACS
21.60.-n - Nuclear-structure models and methods.
21.60.Fw - Models based on group theory.

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