“…With this in mind, it is instructive to compare the extreme shell-model picture, with one particle in the (0d1s)-shell, or the more general (0 + 2) ω model, to the collective model description contained in the MCAS theory [7], which describes low-energy nucleon-nucleus scattering, and the spectrum of the compound system (both bound-states and resonances). However, it is well known that the description of the spectrum of 16 O requires a 4 ω shell model at the minimum [12][13][14]. We discuss aspects of both the 2 ω and 4 ω shell-model results for 16 O to frame discussion of the 2 ω results we have been able to obtain, so far, for the mass-17 systems.…”