PROBING SPIN FIELDS AND SPIN-ORBIT TERM OF THE LOCAL NUCLEAR ENERGY FUNCTIONAL AT BAND TERMINATION.

A systematic study of the terminating states in A~50 mass region using the self-consistent Skyrme-Hartree-Fock model is presented. The objective is to use the intrinsic simplicity of the terminating states to constrain certain parameters of the local nuclear energy functional. In particular, the work focuses on the spin fields and the spin-orbit term and constrain the appropriate Landau parameters and the strength of the spin-orbit potential. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]