English

Toroidal resonance: relation to pygmy mode, vortical properties and anomalous deformation splitting

Nuclear Theory 2017-06-05 v1

Abstract

We review a recent progress in investigation of the isoscalar toroidal dipole resonance (TDR). A possible relation of the TDR and low-energy dipole strength (also called a pygmy resonance) is analyzed. It is shown that the dipole strength in the pygmy region can by understood as a local manifestation of the collective vortical toroidal motion at the nuclear surface. Application of the TDR as a measure of the nuclear dipole vorticity is discussed. Finally, an anomalous splitting of the TDR in deformed nuclei is scrutinized.

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@article{arxiv.1602.03326,
  title  = {Toroidal resonance: relation to pygmy mode, vortical properties and anomalous deformation splitting},
  author = {V. O. Nesterenko and J. Kvasil and A. Repko and W. Kleinig and P. -G. Reinhard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.03326},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

8 pages, 5 figures, submitted to "Physics of Atomic Nuclei"