Saturation properties and incompressibility of nuclear matter: A consistent determination from nuclear masses

Journal Article · Tue Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1995 · Physical Review, C

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.52.711· OSTI ID:90546

Nayak, R ^[1]; Uma Maheswari, V S; Satpathy, L ^[2]

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1. Physics Department, Ravenshaw College, Cuttack (India)
2. Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar-751005 (India)

Starting with a two-body effective nucleon-nucleon interaction, it is shown that the infinite nuclear matter model of atomic nuclei is more appropriate than the conventional Bethe-Weizsacker-like mass formulas to extract saturation properties of nuclear matter from nuclear masses. In particular, the saturation density thus obtained agrees with that of electron scattering data and the Hartree-Fock calculations. For the first time using nuclear mass formula, the radius constant {ital r}{sub 0}=1.138 fm and binding energy per nucleon {ital a}{sub {ital v}}={minus}16.11 MeV, corresponding to the infinite nuclear matter, are consistently obtained from the same source. An important off-shoot of this study is the determination of nuclear matter incompressibility {ital K}{sub {infinity}} to be 288{plus_minus}28 MeV using the same source of nuclear masses as input.

• OSTI ID: 90546
• Journal Information: Physical Review, C, Journal Name: Physical Review, C Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 52; ISSN 0556-2813; ISSN PRVCAN
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

66 PHYSICS
BINDING ENERGY
COMPRESSIBILITY
DENSITY
ELECTRON REACTIONS
HARTREE-FOCK METHOD
MASS FORMULAE
NUCLEAR MATTER
NUCLEON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
SATURATION