What are spherical even-even nuclei?

  • Context: Graduate 
  • Thread starter Thread starter kuecken
  • Start date Start date
  • Tags Tags
    even Nuclei Spherical
Join the discussion
Registration is free. Ask a follow-up in this thread, or start your own.
1 reply · 2K views
kuecken
Messages
17
Reaction score
0
Hello,

I came across the name spherical even even nuclei in an exercise about the hyperfine structure. What does it refer to? That the number of protons and the number of neutrons are both even? So that there is no nuclear magnetic moment?
 
Physics news on Phys.org
kuecken said:
Hello,

I came across the name spherical even even nuclei in an exercise about the hyperfine structure. What does it refer to? That the number of protons and the number of neutrons are both even? So that there is no nuclear magnetic moment?
Well done :)