https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2002-10313-4
Hyperdeformed and megadeformed nuclei
Lessons from the slow progress and emerging new strategies
1
Institut de Recherches Subatomiques, IN2P3-CNRS/Université Louis Pasteur, F-67037, Strasbourg Cedex 2, France
2
Katedra Fizyki Teoretycznej, Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej, PL-20031, Lublin, Poland
3
Department of Physics, University of Surrey, GU2 1XH, Guildford, UK
* e-mail: Jerzy.Dudek@IReS.in2p3.fr
We discuss physics motivations related to hyperdeformed nuclei and more generally large nuclear deformations at high angular momenta. Possible reasons for the experimental difficulties encountered so far are discussed together with suggestions related to the new setting of priorities that combine our present-day knowledge about the behavior of hot nuclei, in particular, the Jacobi transitions, and the hyperdeformed-shell structures.
© Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer-Verlag, 2003
