Encyclopedia > Interacting boson model

Article Content

Interacting boson model

The Interacting Boson Model (IBM) is a model in nuclear physics in which nucleons (protons or neutrons) pair up, essentially acting as a single particle with boson properties, with integral spin of 0, 2 or 4.

The IBM-I treats both types of nucleons the same.

The IBM-II treats protons and neutrons separately.

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

Dynabee

... thumb, a person holding it in her hand can accelerate the gyroscope to incredibly high revs by following a circular wrist motion with the device. Modern devices come with ...