Contemporary Nuclear Shell Models

Key words: 
• shell model /
• large scall calculation /
• model space truncation /
• realistic many-body shell model

Abstract: The current status on the theoretical investigations of the nuclear shell model is reviewed, and the fundamental problems in shellmodel studies are mentioned. Basically the shellmodel uses a very intuitive approach to study the nuclear manybody dynamics in terms of valence particles. It assumes that the nucleons, belonging to a closed core, do not participate in the establishment of the nuclear spectrum. One of the main problems in the (traditional) shell model is to make a calculation...