Consequences of a relativistic pseudospin symmetry for radial nodes and intruder levels in nuclei

A. Leviatan*, J. N. Ginocchio

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Abstract

The identification of pseudospin symmetry as a relativistic symmetry of the Dirac Hamiltonian is used to explain the structure of radial nodes occurring in pseudospin doublets and to illuminate the special status of nodeless intruder states in nuclei.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)214-220
Number of pages7
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume518
Issue number1-2
DOIs
StatePublished - 11 Oct 2001

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We thank Dr. Jiri Mares for assistance with his numerical code. This research was supported in part by the US–Israel Binational Science Foundation and in part by the United States Department of Energy under contract W-7405-ENG-36.

Keywords

  • Dirac Hamiltonian
  • Pseudospin
  • Relativistic mean field theory
  • Symmetry

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