SPIN-ORBIT SPLITTING AMONG CERTAIN LIGHT NUCLEI DUE TO THE TWO-BODY SPIN-ORBIT POTENTIAL
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The separation of doublet levels in the mass 5, 6, 14, 15, and 17 systems is calculated from recent semiphenomenological potentials. Shell-model harmonic-oscillator functions are used to represent the nucleons. These wave functions are modified by means of correlation functions which vanish whenever any two nucleons approach closer than the hard-core radius and approach the unmodified oscillator function for large nucleon separations. It is found that the two-body spin-orbit potentials give 50 to 70% of the experimentally observed splittings.