Eur. Phys. J. A (2017) 53: 148
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2017-12346-x

Letter to the Editor

Prolate over oblate dominance in deformed nuclei as a consequence of the SU(3) symmetry and the Pauli principle

Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics, National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, GR-15310, Aghia Paraskevi, Attiki, Greece

^* e-mail: bonat@inp.demokritos.gr

Received: 18 May 2017
Accepted: 29 June 2017
Published online: 17 July 2017

Abstract

We show that the dominance of prolate over oblate shapes in even-even deformed nuclei can be derived from the SU(3) symmetry and the Pauli principle.