Abstract
The SU(3) group, being the symmetry group of the harmonic oscillator problem, entered the nuclear physics through the shell model of light nuclei1. In addition to playing an important role in the shell model, it helped to establish the close relation between the quadrupole deformation and clusterization in some transparent cases2,3. The purpose of this lecture is to draw attention to the fact, that similar symmetry considserations can be very interesting and of practical use in a couple of new territories as well. We consider here examples for the clusterization of light nuclei in their ground-state region, as well as in highly excited states (molecular resonances), interrelation between the superdeformed and cluster configurations, binary fission modes of light nuclei, and heavy cluster radioactivity. The SU(3) symmetry appears in these investigations as the dynamical symmetry of the semimicroscopic algebraic cluster model4,5.
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Cseh, J., Lévai, G., Varga, K., Gupta, R.K., Scheid, W. (1994). Deformation, Clusterization, Fission and SU(3). In: Scheid, W., Sandulescu, A. (eds) Frontier Topics in Nuclear Physics. NATO ASI Series, vol 334. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2568-4_41
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