A Note on the Pair Excitation Across Major Shell in Deformed Nuclei

Abstract

Valence nucleons usually play a dominant role in low energy nuclear spectra. The original version of the Interacting Boson Model[1] (IBM) with the assumption that all degrees of freedom arise from the valence shell reproduces well large amount of experimental data. However this assumption does not work well in some cases, for instance, in the even isotopes of , , and , rather well developed intruder bands[2] lie outside the IBA model space. K. Heyde et al. attributed these low lying intruder states to the pair excitation (PE) across major shell[3]. In the well deformed nuclei one can hardly think of the closed shell core as being spherical and inert. The rapid change of Nilsson levels with deformation seems to indicate that there should be excitations of nucleons across major shells in the well deformed nuclei.