Rotating nuclei at extreme conditions: Cranked Relativistic Mean Field Description

Abstract

The cranked relativistic mean field (CRMF) theory is applied for the description of superdeformed (SD) rotational bands observed in ${}^{153}$Ho. The question of the structure of the so-called SD band in ${}^{154}$Er is also addressed and a brief overview of applications of CRMF theory to the description of rotating nuclei at extreme conditions is presented.

Comments: 4 pages, 1 PostScript figure, LaTex, uses 'espcrc1.sty', to be published in Proceedings of International Nuclear Physics Conference, Paris, 1998 which will appear in Nuclear Physics