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IN a recent paper1, H. A. Wilson has proposed a spherical shell model for the nucleus of a heavy atom. In this model the nucleus is represented as an inextensible, flexible, spherical shell the shape of which is maintained by the Coulomb forces between the protons. The radius of the shell is assumed to be R = R0A1/3, where R0 is a constant and A is the total number of nucleons in the nucleus, and, according to Wilson, the frequency of the nth mode of vibration of the shell is given by ω = ω0(n2 + n – 2)1/2, where ω0 = eZ/2R03/2M1/2A.
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SNEDDON, I., TOUSCHEK, B. Nuclear Models. Nature 161, 61 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161061a0
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