antistretching
English
editNoun
editantistretching (uncountable)
- (physics) Characterized by a decrease of the quadrupole deformation.
- Coordinate term: antipairing
- 1973, Jan de Boer, H. J. Mang, Proceedings of the International Conference on Nuclear Physics, Munich, August 27-September 1, 1973: Invited papers, page 113:
- The second sample I would like to mention concerns the variation of intrinsic states while rotating a nucleus faster and faster, that is, the so-called antistretching and antipairing effects.
- 1974, Nuclear Science Abstracts, page 3114:
- It is shown that there is a clear decrease of the pairing correlations (antipairing) and a decrease of the quadrupole deformation (antistretching) with increasing angular momentum.