Global properties of the skyrme-force-induced nuclear symmetry energy
Aug, 2005
Citations per year
Abstract:
Large scale calculations are performed to establish the global mass dependence of the nuclear symmetry energy, , which in turn depends on two basic ingredients: the mean-level spacing, , and the effective strength of the isovector mean-potential, . Surprisingly, our results reveal that in modern parameterizations including SLy4, SkO, SkXc, and SkP these two basic ingredients of are almost equal after rescaling them linearly by the isoscalar and the isovector effective masses, respectively. This result points toward a new fundamental property of the nuclear interaction that remains to be resolved. In addition, our analysis determines the ratio of the surface-to-volume contributions to to be 1.6, consistent with hydrodynamical estimates for the static dipole polarizability as well as the neutron-skin.Note:
- 4 pages, 2 figures, 1 table
- 21.30.Fe
- 21.60.Jz
References(21)
Figures(0)