https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-020-00289-4
Regular Article – Experimental Physics
Global trends of nuclear 
configurations
Application of a simple effective-interaction model
1
Department of Subatomic Physics, iThemba LABS, P.O. Box 722, 7129, Somerset West, South Africa
2
School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa
3
Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA
Received:
6
August
2020
Accepted:
16
October
2020
Published online:
6
November
2020
With new experimental information on nuclei far from stability being available, a systematic investigation of excitation energies and electromagnetic properties along the 
isotones and 
isotopes is presented. The experimental data are discussed in the context of the appearance and disappearance of shell closures at 
, and compared to an effective-interaction approach applied to neutrons and protons in configurations. In spite of its simplicity the model is able to explain the observed properties.
© Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
