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i am actually calculating the nuclear spin of Sodium 23. Here we have 11 protons and 12 neutrons. Now both the nuclei are short of the magic numbers. When I use the shell model for protons and neutrons separately, I found 3 protons in the 1d5/2 sub-shell and 4 neutrons in the same 1d5/2 sub-shell. So because of two pairings, neutrons give spin as 0 and because of a pairing in protons, one proton is left out which should give spin as 1/2. But in the book its, I=3/2. Please can anyone explain the fact how the spin of Na nucleus is 3/2. Thank you in advance.