%0 Journal Article %T Geometry of the shears mechanism in nuclei %A P. Van Isacker %A A. O. Macchiavelli %J Physics %D 2013 %I arXiv %R 10.1103/PhysRevC.87.061301 %X The geometry of the shears mechanism in nuclei is derived from the nuclear shell model. This is achieved by taking the limit of large angular momenta (classical limit) of shell-model matrix elements. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.1132v1