Phase Transitions: Summary of Discussion Session II of Camerino 2005

Abstract

A brief report of the topics which received attention during the discussion session II of the International Workshop on Symmetries and Low-Energy Phase Transitions in Nuclear-Structure Physics, held in Camerino on 9-11 October 2005, is given. These include special solutions of the Bohr Hamiltonian for various potentials, the study of triaxial shapes and of degrees of freedom other than the quadrupole one (octupole, scissors), as well as the search for experimental manifestations of the critical point symmetries E(5) and X(5), and of the recently proposed critical point supersymmetry E(5/4).