Phys. Rev. C 72, 057301 (2005) [4 pages]

Magic numbers in the neutron-rich oxygen isotopes

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B. Alex Brown^1,* and W. A. Richter^2,†
¹Department of Physics and Astronomy, and National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1321, USA
²Department of Physics, University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Bellville 7535, South Africa

Received 31 August 2005; published 21 November 2005

The predicted and experimental properties of the new doubly magic nuclei ²²O and ²⁴O are discussed. These together with previous observations lead to a new rule for magic numbers: if there is an oscillator magic number (2, 8, 20, or 40) for one kind of nucleon, then the other kind of nucleon has a magic number for the filling of every possible (n, l, j) value.

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevC.72.057301

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevC.72.057301

PACS:

27.30.+t, 21.60.Cs

^*Electronic address: brown@nscl.msu.edu

^†Electronic address: richter@sun.ac.za

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Phys. Rev. C 72, 057301 (2005) [4 pages]

Magic numbers in the neutron-rich oxygen isotopes