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   RECORD NO.:  141924 INSPEC Abstract No: A70038837
       AUTHOR:  Pauling, L.
  CORP SOURCE:  Stanford Univ., CA, USA
        TITLE:  Orbiting clusters in atomic nuclei
       SOURCE:  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the 
                United States of America, vol.64, no.3, p. 807-9
         ISSN:  0027-8424
        CODEN:  PNASA6
PLACE OF PUBL:  USA
     LANGUAGE:  English
         YEAR:  Nov. 1969
     ABSTRACT:  As an alternative to their description as vibrational 
                levels, the low excited states of even-even nuclei can be 
                described as rotational states of a helion, dineutron, 
                diproton, or other cluster about the rest of the nucleus, 
                leading to reasonable values of the average distance between 
                centers of the clusters. Some states involve rotational 
                excitation of two or more helions or other clusters. The 
                nature of the rotating clusters is determined by the 
                relation of the neutron and proton numbers to the magic 
                numbers
  DESCRIPTORS:  nuclear energy levels; nuclear theory
  CLASS CODES:  A2110 (General and average properties of nuclei; properties 
                of nuclear energy levels)
 
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