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In this chapter, first introduced is SU(3) in an oscillator shell and then presented are various basic results of SU(3) algebra along with some preliminary applications to shell model (SM) and interacting boson model (IBM). Although the physics of SU(3) in nuclei is different from the one in particle physics, the algebraic results of SU(3) apply to both. In emphasizing this, in the end presented are the quantum numbers for elementary particles using some simple results derived for SU(3) in nuclei.
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Kota, V.K.B. (2020). SU(3) Algebra in Nuclei: Preliminaries. In: SU(3) Symmetry in Atomic Nuclei. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3603-8_2
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