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Empirical Moments of Inertia of Axially Asymmetric Nuclei

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Relative moments of inertia for all three axis compared to expectations for irrotational (superfluid) flow.

A recently formulated triaxial rotor model was used to extract empirical moments of inertia of atomic nuclei from nuclear structure measurements. This model suggested that the unstable refractory nucleus 110Ru is the best candidate for ground-state triaxiality to date. Measurements of Coulomb excitation with a beam of 110Ru could give hints of a triaxial ground state for this unstable nucleus.