Wobbling geometry in simple triaxial rotor

TL;DR

This paper investigates the wobbling motion in a simple triaxial rotor, comparing exact solutions with approximate formulas, and studies the evolution of angular momentum geometry and wobbling modes up to high spin states.

Contribution

It provides a detailed analysis of wobbling motion in triaxial rotors, including exact solutions and their comparison with analytic approximations, and introduces an evolutionary track of wobbling behavior.

Findings

Low-lying wobbling bands are well described by analytic formulas.

Wobbling motion shifts from the axis with the largest to the smallest moment of inertia as phonon number increases.

A specific evolutionary track for triaxial rotating nuclei motion is proposed.

Abstract

The spectroscopy properties and angular momentum geometry for the wobbling motion of a simple triaxial rotor are investigated within the triaxial rotor model up to spin $I=40\hbar$. The obtained exact solutions of energy spectra and reduced quadrupole transition probabilities are compared to the approximate analytic solutions by harmonic approximation formula and Holstein-Primakoff formula. It is found that the low lying wobbling bands can be well described by the analytic formulas. The evolution of the angular momentum geometry as well as the $K$-distribution with respect to the rotation and the wobbling phonon excitation are studied in detail. It is demonstrated that with the increasing of wobbling phonon number, the triaxial rotor changes its wobbling motions along the axis with the largest moment of inertia to the axis with the smallest moment of inertia. In this process, a specific evolutionary track that can be used to depict the motion of a triaxial rotating nuclei is proposed.