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shell model
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shell model [′shel ‚mäd·əl]
(nuclear physics)
A model of the nucleus in which the shell structure is either postulated or is a consequence of other postulates; especially the model in which the nucleons act as independent particles filling a preassigned set of energy levels as permitted by the quantum numbers and Pauli principle.


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In the nuclear shell model, successive levels alternate in parity, and so parity eigenstates are linear combinations of either even (|nh[omega]>, n even) or odd (|nh[omega]>, n odd) shell states.
 
 
 
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