Shape isomers and the double‐humped barrier

DEC 01, 1971

How four independent puzzles in nuclear physics converge in a single, unifying explanation—some nuclei can exist in two different shapes.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3022472

David D. Clark

Efforts to express the total binding energy of the nucleus in terms of the atomic number, the number of neutrons and the shape of the nucleus form an old and continuing search. An accurate expression for this function would help us understand many nuclear phenomena, for example the fission barrier: Under what conditions and in what ways do nuclei fly apart?

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David D. Clark. Ward Laboratory of Nuclear Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.