Progression towards an effective shell-model theory of rotational nuclei

Abstract

A goal of nuclear physics is to determine the validity of the nuclear shell model and to express the various models of nuclear phenomena as sub-models of this model. It is also profitable to start from a phenomenological model interpretation of nuclear data and use the results to design an effective shell-model description of the data. This paper suggests a method for deriving effective shell-model spaces for rotational nuclei and indicates that new methods are needed for deriving effective interactions for rotational nuclei.