Abstract

• The nuclei having asymmetric shapes in their ground state have now become an interesting topic in both theoretical and experimental nuclear structure physics. In my present work, the deformations in neutron-rich light-mass nuclei are investigated by using self-consistent mean field approach. Using the constrained Skyrme Hartree-Fock+BCS method on the three-dimensional Cartesian mesh, we calculated the potential energy surfaces (PES) for some selected light nuclei (16O, 22Ne and 28Si) in β- γ plane where β represents ellipsoidal quadrupole deformation and γ , the degree of axial asymmetry.