------------------------------------------------------------ RECORD NO.: 522599 INSPEC Abstract No: A73038124 AUTHOR: Anagnostatos, G.S. CORP SOURCE: North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, USA TITLE: The geometry of the isomorphic model of the closed-shell nuclei SOURCE: Canadian Journal of Physics, vol.51, no.9, p. 998-1011 ISSN: 0008-4204 CODEN: CJPHAD PLACE OF PUBL: Canada LANGUAGE: English YEAR: 1 May 1973 TREATMENT: T Theoretical or Mathematical ABSTRACT: The classical part of a new microscopic model of nuclear structure based on high spatial symmetry is proposed. The isomorphic model, as it is called, is a model of the closed- shell nuclei up to /sup 208/Pb at the ground state. In brief, it assumes stable dynamic equilibrium of nucleons on spherical shells, which results in shells having average shapes represented by high symmetry polyhedra derived from one another, whose vertices represent average nucleon positions. Properties successfully examined by application of this classical part alone are nuclear shells and magic numbers, nuclear radii, nuclear density, and ground-state moments of inertia of rotating nuclei based on a closed- shell approximation (13 Refs.) DESCRIPTORS: nuclear shell model IDENTIFIERS: high symmetry polyhedra; magic numbers; nuclear shells; nuclear density; moments of inertia; isomorphic model; closed shell nuclei; nuclear structure microscopic model; closed shell approximation; nuclear radii CLASS CODES: A2160C (Nuclear shell model) ------------------------------------------------------------