A region of high-spin toroidal isomers

Abstract

The combined considerations of both the bulk liquid-drop-type behawior and the quantized angular momentum reveal that high-spin toroidal isomeric states may have general occurrences for light nuclei with 28 <= A <= 48. High-spin N=Z toroidal isomers in this mass region have been located theoretically using cranked self-consistent constraint Skyrme-Hartree-Fock model calculations.

Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures