Nuclear shell structure in the systematics of nuclear properties

Abstract

Existing experimental data allow us to study the behavior of nuclear shell structure by analyzing characteristics of different nature. In this work, one of the most striking phenomena of nuclear dynamics is examined: nucleon pairing. Nucleon pairing for different nuclei chains as a function of the number of protons or neutrons in a nucleus explains why high numbers of states with positive parity in even-odd nuclei are observed for excitation energies E* < 4 MeV that form the multiplet of a nucleus’s ground state.