------------------------------------------------------------ RECORD NO.: 141924 INSPEC Abstract No: A70038837 AUTHOR: Pauling, L. CORP SOURCE: Stanford Univ., CA, USA TITLE: Orbiting clusters in atomic nuclei SOURCE: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol.64, no.3, p. 807-9 ISSN: 0027-8424 CODEN: PNASA6 PLACE OF PUBL: USA LANGUAGE: English YEAR: Nov. 1969 ABSTRACT: As an alternative to their description as vibrational levels, the low excited states of even-even nuclei can be described as rotational states of a helion, dineutron, diproton, or other cluster about the rest of the nucleus, leading to reasonable values of the average distance between centers of the clusters. Some states involve rotational excitation of two or more helions or other clusters. The nature of the rotating clusters is determined by the relation of the neutron and proton numbers to the magic numbers DESCRIPTORS: nuclear energy levels; nuclear theory CLASS CODES: A2110 (General and average properties of nuclei; properties of nuclear energy levels) ------------------------------------------------------------