X-Nico

3 unusual facts about shell model


Neutron capture nucleosynthesis

S-process describes neutron capture that is slow relative to the rate of beta decay, as for stellar nucleosynthesis in some stars, and yields nuclei with stable nuclear shells.

Shell model

Nuclear shell model, how protons and neutrons are arranged in an atom nucleus

Electron configuration, how electrons are arranged in an atom or molecule


Aage Bohr

The shell model, developed in 1949, allowed some additional features to be explained, in particular the so-called magic numbers.

Hans-Arwed Weidenmüller

He examined nuclear reactions in the shell model under inclusion of continuum states and developed a microscopic statistical theory of nuclear reactions; this statistical theory (now known as transport theory) had applications to the interpretation of the particle accelerator experiments with heavy ions as well as on highly excited compound nuclei.


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