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

Magic numbers in the neutron-rich oxygen isotopes

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B. Alex Brown1 * and W. A. Richter2 †
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.


©2005 The American Physical Society

URL: 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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