Abstract
The energy of the giant resonance of the nuclear photoeffect is observed to be roughly independent of the mass number A for A ≳ 30, then to decrease slowly as A increases (Ferguson et al. 1954). Several calculations of the energy have been made for heavy nuclei, exhibiting the decrease for large A (see Levinger 1954). Here we show that the results for light nuclei are consistent with the predictions of the nuclear shell model.

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