Abstract

• In this work, the paring correlation along the energy surfaces for some light nuclei has been investigated. To this end, constrained Hartree-Fock+BCS method with Skyrme interaction is employed. Variation of average paring gaps along with the Nilsson single- particle levels at each constrained nuclear shapes shows the relation between nuclear shapes, paring correlation and nature of single particle levels. The calculated results indicate that the effect of paring depends on the level density in the vicinity of highest occupied level.