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Title: Nuclear Mass Predictions within the Skyrme HFB Theory

Journal Article · · AIP Conference Proceedings
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1945239· OSTI ID:20722414
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  1. Institut d'Astronomie et d'Astrophysique, ULB - CP226, 1050 Brussels (Belgium)
  2. Departement de Physique, Universite de Montreal, Montreal (Quebec), H3C 3J7 (Canada)

To increase the reliability of predictions of highly neutron-rich nuclear masses we systematically analyze the sensitivity of Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) mass formulae to various physical inputs, such as a density dependence of the pairing interaction, a low effective mass, the particle-number projection, the symmetry energy, ... We typically use a 10-parameter Skyrme force and a 4-parameter {delta}-function pairing force. The 14 degrees of freedom are adjusted to the masses of all measured nuclei with N,Z {>=} 8 given in the 2001 and 2003 Audi et al. compilations. The masses of light and proton-rich nuclei are corrected by a 4-parameter phenomenological Wigner term. With more than ten such parameter sets complete mass tables are constructed, going from one drip line to the other, up to Z = 120.

OSTI ID:
20722414
Journal Information:
AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 769, Issue 1; Conference: International conference on nuclear data for science and technology, Santa Fe, NM (United States), 26 Sep - 1 Oct 2004; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.1945239; (c) 2005 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English