Implications of deformation and shape coexistence for the nuclear shell model.
The successes of the nuclear shell model in explaining the stability properties of magic nuclei are challenged by the observation of rotational bands for which the sequential filling of single-particle energy levels of the spherical shell model are not respected. This Letter proposes criteria for identifying the shell-model configurations appropriate for describing such bands of states.
Rowe
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Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada.
Thiamova
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Wood
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