Woods-Saxon potential parameters optimized to the high spin spectra in the lead region

The parametrization of the spin-orbit part of the Woods-Saxon potential was optimized taking into account the single-particle energies corrected for nucleon-nucleus interaction and the high-spin spectra of ^204Pb and ^212Rn. With the spin-orbit potential strength parameters =36. 0 and the radius parameter ({r₀) }ₒ₎=1. 3 fm for both protons and neutrons, both types of empirical data are reproduced well. The configurations of the calculated high-spin states are identical with the shell-model results. NUCLEAR STRUCTURE Woods-Saxon single-particle levels, high-spin excitations, lead region nuclei.