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Nuclear Physics A

Volume 165, Issue 1, 5 April 1971, Pages 199-210
Nuclear Physics A

α-Particle model of 16O

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Abstract

A simple α-particle model is constructed for 16O. By making suitable approximations on the wave function of four interacting particles, we reduce the Schrödinger equation to a onedimensional equation. The equation is solved using empirical α-α interactions. Reasonable agreement with experiment is obtained on the radius of the ground state, and the energies of the ground and first excited 0+ states. The model qualitatively explains the predominantly deformed structure of the excited state, and the mixing of a deformed component into the ground state. The value obtained for the mixing is somewhat too large.

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow 1969–1971.

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