Towards a consistent understanding of the exotic nucleus ${}_{14}^{42}S{i}_{28}$

Syed Afsar Abbas, Anisul Ain Usmani, Usuf Rahaman +1

The issue of whether ${}_{14}^{42}S{i}_{28}$ is doubly magical or not has been a contentious one. Fridmann {\it et al.} (Nature 435 (2005) 922) through studies of two-proton knockout r…