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We present a new method for constructing the total angular momentum of many-nucleon states. We find that the restrictions imposed by the fermion antisymmetry on the total state are fully absorbed into the single-j space when the broken…
Standard concepts of nuclear physics explaining the systematics of ground state spins in nuclei by the presence of specific coherent terms in the nucleon-nucleon interaction were put in doubt by the observation that these systematics can be…