Open AccessThe emergence of symmetries in complex nuclei
Author(s) -
P. Van Isacker
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/20/1/022
Subject(s) - homogeneous space , theoretical physics , physics , mathematics , geometry
After a brief review of early developments, two recent examples of applications of symmetries in nuclear physics are presented: (i) pseudo-spin symmetry which can be used to extend Wigner's supermultiplet model to heavy nuclei; (ii) symmetries of the interacting boson model with isoscalar and isovector bosons which can be used to analyze the problem of deuteron transfer in N = Z nuclei