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A non-disappearing magic trick

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Well-established models of nuclei describe properties such as shells and magic numbers. But how do these predictions stand up to scrutiny for exotic, unstable nuclei? Pretty well, according to the latest study.

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Figure 1: The microscopic nuclear landscape.

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  1. Ragnar Bengtsson is in the Division of Mathematical Physics, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund University, Box 118, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden.,

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  2. Peter Möller is in the Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545-0001, USA. moller@lanl.gov,

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