| Abstract No: |
036
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| Submitted on: |
9 Jan 2001, 21:28 GMT
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| Title: |
Fingerprints of Neutron Proton Pairing at High Angular Momenta
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| Author(s): |
R. Wyss1
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| Affiliation(s): |
1KTH-Karnfysik, Frescativ. 24, S-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden
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The study of high spin states has since long been one of
the most powerful tools in the study of nuclear structure.
The recent advance in nuclear spectroscopy has paved the way
to access heavy N=Z nuclei. Since the neutron and proton
wave functions are essentially degenerate in these nuclei, one may expect
proton-neutron correlations to become important. The quest
for proton-neutron pairing has been a long standing issue in
nuclear structure. The importance of proton-neutron correlations
for the backbending frequencies, the moments of inertia as
well as the structure of two quasi-particle states in
heavy N=Z nuclei will be reviewed. Analogies with the
superfluid phases in He3 are discussed.