Bohr-Weisskopf theory

We have extended the Bohr-Weisskopf theory, based largely on the nuclear single particle model with the inclusion of core polarization in the evaluation of the effect of finite size of the nuclear magnetization. This model was found quite successful in ac-... 

Friedman, F. L., and V. F. Weisskopf The compound nucleus. Essay in Niels Bohr and the Development of Physics. London Pergamon Press 1955. — A brief but excellent account of the general development of nuclear reaction theory in which the optical model is presented as a development of the original ideas of Bohr. 

The first attempts to account for the behaviour of nuclear reactions were made with the use of an optical model. The failure of this model to account for the sharp resonances was the starting point for Bohr s compound nucleus hypothesis. In recent years, the inadequacy of the statistical theory which is based on it has renewed interest in the optical model, in particular, by Feshbach, Porter and Weisskopf. ... 

---