Coexistence of Shapes and Structure of Nuclei in the A = 80 Region

Abstract

In recent years, the nuclei in the mass range A=60–90 have been studied extensively by the experimentalists. This has led to exciting discoveries of large deformations, co-existence of shapes, rapid variation of structure with changes in neutron and proton number etc. It has been shown in particular that as the neutron or proton number approaches 38–40, nuclei show strong deformations and rapid variation of structure. In this development studies of coexistence of different shapes in Se nuclei and the structure of the heaviest N = Z isotope 80Zr would be quite interesting.