In turn, these results can be used to improve theoretical models, and lend strong support to the nuclear shell model.

It seems possible that such a shell may persist as a definite structure at moderate excitation of the nucleus, the excitation energy being shared by the nucleons not contained in the closed shell.

and shell model calculations near the N = Z line, continues Ge. The precise excitation energy of the silver-96 isomer serves as a benchmark for ab initio predictions of nuclear properties beyond ...