Cluster model studies of nuclei in the actinide region

• Main Author: Seals, H E
• Other Authors: Perez, Sandro M
• Format: Dissertation
• Language: English
• Published: University of Cape Town 2014
• Subjects: Physics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6551

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 44-46). === Three independent techniques for obtaining core-cluster partitions of nuclei in the actinide region are found to give consistent results. As a by-product the techniques generate theoretical decay constants and energy spectra in good agreement with their experimental counterparts. The relationship implied by the binary cluster model between core-cluster charge products and electric quadrupole transition strengths is confirmed; and a basis from which to extract quantitative information from Casten's correlations is introduced.