Negative-Parity States inPb208

The energies and the detailed structure of the excited states of ${\mathrm{Pb}}^{208}$ with negative parity are well described by a conventional shell-model calculation which uses a "simple" phenomenological residual force. The calculated position of the analog of the ground state of ${\mathrm{Pb}}^{208}$ in ${\mathrm{Bi}}^{208}$ is also in agreement with the experimental results.