Nuclear models

JUN 01, 1969

The spherical shell, the deformed shell, “infinite nuclear matter,” the droplet—each of these models provides a simplification that can be useful, in appropriate circumstances, to the study of the nucleus.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3035619

David R. Inglis

To UNDERSTAND the behavior of the atomic nucleus we resort to models, for the complexity of the problems that we meet demands simplification if progress is to be made.

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David R. Inglis, University of Massachusetts.