An effective two-body interaction is constructed from a new Reid-like NN potential for a large no-core space consisting of six major shells and is used to generate the shell-model properties for light nuclei from A=2 to 6. For practical reasons, the model space is partially truncated for A=6. Binding energies and other physical observables are calculated and they compare favorably with experiment.

• Received 17 May 1994

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.50.2841