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570 Collective Model<br />

Figure 18.17: Energy levels for a harmonic oscillator potential with prolate spheroidal deformations.<br />

The particle numbers of closed shells are shown for a spherical potential and for an ellipsoid<br />

with a ratio of major to minor axes of 2. [Courtesy J. R. Nix and reproduced with permission<br />

from the Annu. Rev. Nucl. Sci. 22, 65 (1972); c○ Annual Reviews, Inc.]<br />

18.9 References<br />

Classic treatments of most of the aspects described in this chapter are given in<br />

more detail in A. de Shalit and H. Feshbach, Theoretical Nuclear <strong>Physics</strong>, Vol. I:<br />

Nuclear Structure, Wiley, New York, 1974; J.D. Walecka, Theoretical Nuclear and<br />

Subnuclear <strong>Physics</strong>, World Sci. (2004); J. M. Arias, M. Lozano An Advanced Course<br />

in Modern Nuclear <strong>Physics</strong>, Springer (2001).<br />

The authoritative work on the phenomenological description of the collective<br />

nuclear model is A. Bohr and B. R. Mottelson, Nuclear Structure, Vol. II, Benjamin,<br />

Reading, Mass. 1975.<br />

Superdeformation and nuclear rotation at high spins are described in R.V.F.<br />

Janssens and T.L. Khoo, Annu. Rev. Nuc. Part. Sci. 41, 321 (1991). The<br />

collective model, resonances and high spin states are reviewed in D. Ward and P.<br />

Fallon, High Spin Properties of Atomic Nuclei in Adv, in Nucl. Phys. 26, 168<br />

(2001); Collective Phenomena in Atomic Nuclei, (T. Engeland, J.E. Rekstad, and

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