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Physics Letters B

Volume 39, Issue 5, 29 May 1972, Pages 579-582
Physics Letters B

Strongly deformed nuclei near the magic proton shell 82?

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Abstract

The sudden change of the isotope phase shift in the Hg isotopes is explained by studying the deformation energy with the Strutinsky shell correction method. It is shown that going from the spherical isotope 204Hg to the isotope 184Hg a small negative deformation (up to β2 = −0.19) is built up. Between the mass numbers 186 and 182 the deformation is shifted through the γ instability valley to larger positive deformations (β2 ≈ 0.3). The experimentally observed anomaly can be explained with the theoretical isotope shift constant, if this change of ground state deformations is taken into account.

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