Soft triaxial rotovibrational motion in the vicinity ofγ=π∕6

Abstract

A solution of the Bohr collective hamiltonian for the $\beta-$soft, $\gamma-$soft triaxial rotor with $\gamma \sim \pi/6$ is presented making use of a harmonic potential in $\gamma$ and Coulomb-like and Kratzer-like potentials in $\beta$. It is shown that, while the $\gamma-$angular part in the present case gives rise to a straightforward extension of the rigid triaxial rotor energy in which an additive harmonic term appears, the inclusion of the $\beta$ part results instead in a non-trivial expression for the spectrum. The negative anharmonicities of the energy levels with respect to a simple rigid model are in qualitative agreement with general trends in the experimental data.