On the Moments of Inertia of Nuclei

The variational method developed in the previous paper is applied to the calculation of nuclear moments of inertia using an anisotropic harmonic well and neglecting spin-orbit couplings. The inter-nucleon forces are assumed to have a Gaussian form, either with zero range or with a realistic range, and in the latter case either for ordinary (Wigner) forces or for a Serber mixture. The results are shown in the figure. While with such a crude model no detailed agreement can be expected, the orders of magnitude and the trend of the results are encouraging.