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 λ=36.0 and the radius parameter (r₀)ₛₒ=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.