Abstract
In the years 1964-66 several physicists from several groups were searching quite independently for new symmetries related to the proton-neutron pairing interaction. They exploited the so-called quasi-spin method introduced earlier to apply to the system of electrons and then to identical nucleons (only protons or only neutrons). In what follows, a short introduction to the quasi-spin method is presented and then its application to the pairing interaction of neutrons (protons) is given. With the help of the quasi-spin method, the orthogonal symmetry groups SO(5) and SO(8) are shown to deal with proton-neutron pairing interaction in j - j and L - S coupling schemes, respectively. Comments about chronology of published papers related to the symmetry of pairing interaction written by inventors of the new symmetries are also made.
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