Meanings
adjectivemegadeformed (not comparable)
- not comparableGreatly deformed
For several nuclei in this study (such as #123;36#125;Ar), the addition of several spin units above currently measured maximum spin of 16#92;hbar will inevitably trigger the transition to hyper- and megadeformed nuclear shapes..
2016, D. Ray, A. V. Afanasjev, “From superdeformation to extreme deformation and clusterization in the N~Z nuclei of the A~40 mass region”, in arXiv
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