APPLICATION OF A COLLECTIVE MODEL TO Si29

Abstract

A strong-coupling collective model has been applied to a description of the low levels of Si29. Detailed comparisons of the predictions of this model with static and dynamic properties of the low levels of the A = 29 isobaric system have been made; experimental data on the level spectrum, ground-state magnetic moment, decoupling parameter, reduced widths for nucleon capture in deuteron-induced stripping reactions, as well as gamma- and beta-ray transition widths have been used in the comparisons. These indicate that Si29 has an oblate shape with a spheroidicity parameter [Formula: see text]. Although agreement between experiment and theory is in some cases only qualitative, it is shown that current collective models have relevance for the description of nuclear properties in this mass range.