
%0 Journal Article
%A Tassie, LJ 
%T A Model of Nuclear Shape Oscillations for g?Transitions and Electron Excitation
%J Australian Journal of Physics
%D 1956/12/01
%V 9
%N 4
%P 407-418
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/PH560407
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/PH560407 
%X A model of nuclear shape oscillations is set up for an arbitrary nuclear charge distribution. For a uniform charge distribution the model reduces to the liquid drop model. The model is used to consider ?-transitions and electron excitation of nuclei. Explicit expressions are obtained for four charge distributions: (a) uniform, (b) Gaussian, (c) exponential, (d) uniform with Gaussian "edge". The theory predicts a relative angular distribution of electrons scattered by the 4·43 MeV level of 12C in agreement with the experimental results of Fregeau and Hofstadter (1955), but gives a scattered intensity seven times too large. 
