Short description:

The book provides an introduction to both theoretical and experimental results on chirality and wobbling in atomic nuclei.

Long description:

The book provides an introduction to both theoretical and experimental results on chirality and wobbling in atomic nuclei.

It details the achievements in the study of chirality over the past 25 years since the first prediction of this mode of collective motion in nuclei, as well as those on the wobbling motion. It offers a detailed review of the most relevant theoretical developments on both types of collective motion and the experimental results supporting or not the theoretical predictions.

Different views on wobbling are included and confronted with the contradicting experimental results on low-spin wobbling. It is intended to foster further the research on these types of exotic collective motion in nuclei. Which and how these exotic collective motions occur in nuclei, which are their predicted fingerprints and how they are supported by the experimental facts will be presented. Polemics, debates and ambiguities of the interpretation of the experimental results will be exposed.

The reader will have the opportunity to have together different views on the two phenomena which animated the scientific activity in low-energy nuclear physics in many laboratories around the world. The book will be a valuable reference for PhD students, post-docs and researchers in addition to universities and research institutions.

Key Features:

•         The first book on chirality and wobbling in nuclei.

•         Contains a comprehensive review of topics related to chirality and wobbling, including both theoretical and experimental aspects.

•         Contains chapters from leading researchers in the field.

Costel Marian Petrache is a Professor of Physics at University Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3 IJClab, France. After completing his PhD in Physics at the University of Bucharest, Petrache has held several research positions in Romania, France and Italy. His research interests include nuclear spectroscopy of nuclei far from the valley of stability, nuclear structure in extreme conditions (high spins and large deformations), symmetries in nuclei, and Physics applied to art and archaeology. Petrache is a scientific referee for several scientific journals, including Physical Review Letters, Physics Letters B, Physical Review C. He organized the series of conferences Shapes and Symmetries in Nuclei: from Experiment to Theory (SSNET),  and and most recently organized the conference “Chirality and Wobbling in Atomic Nuclei” (Huizhou, China, 2023).

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: History and Future Perspectives on Chirality and Wobbling in Atomic Nuclei. Chapter 2: Wobbling Motion in Triaxial Nuclei. Chapter 3: The 25th Anniversary for Nuclear Chirality. Chapter 4: Algebraic Description of Wobbling Motion in Nuclei. Chapter 5: Recent Experimental Results on Chirality and Wobbling Motion in Triaxially Deformed Nuclei. Chapter 6: Tilted Precession and Wobbling in Triaxial Nuclei. Chapter 7: Experimental Search for Non-Chiral to Chiral Configuration Transition in 126,128 Isotopes. Chapter 8: Semiclassical Feature of Wobbling and Chiral Properties in Atomic Nuclei. Chapter 9: Nuclear Chiral Dynamics within Time-Dependent Covariant Density Functional Theory. Chapter 10: Study of Wobbling Motion with CDFT+PRM Approach. Chapter 11: Recent Developments and Novel Applications of the Interacting Boson-Fermion Model. Chapter 12: Microscopic Investigation of Wobbling Motion in Atomic Nuclei Using the Triaxial Projected Shell Model Approach. Chapter 13: Spin Dynamics of Triaxial Nuclei with Quasiparticle Alignments. Chapter 14: Recent Progress on Nuclear Chiral and Wobbling Motions Based on the Triaxial Projected Shell Model. Chapter 15: Studies of Nuclear Chirality in A≈80 Mass Region. Chapter 16: Recent Progress in Nuclear Chirality of Cesium Isotopes. Chapter 17: Collective Model for Multiple Chiral Doublets Bands and Wobbling Bands. Index.