Moment of Inertia and Dynamical Symmetry

Abstract

We investigate how the moment of inertia of the atomic nucleus can be calculated in terms of the invariant operator of its SU(3) symmetry. This question is important for model Hamiltonians containing the moment of inertia explicitly, e.g., those with multichannel dynamical symmetry, which describes many different bands in a unified way.

Keywords

• moment of inertia
• dynamical symmetry
• algebraic structure models
• rotational spectra