Thomas-Fermi approach to nuclear mass formula: (II). Deformed nuclei and fission barriers

doi:10.1016/0375-9474(87)90122-9

Nuclear Physics A

Volume 470, Issue 1, 17 August 1987, Pages 93-106

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Abstract

We are developing an approach to the nuclear mass formula based on the Skyrme-ETF method with shell corrections calculated by the “Strutinsky integral” method of Chu, Jennings and Brack. The work of paper I of this series is extended here to deformed nuclei and fission barriers. We find that with a unique set of force parameters the present method can reproduce to within 1 MeV the results of Hartree-Fock calculations for masses and fission barriers in all regions of the nuclear chart. But being much faster than Hartree-Fock the present method will have the advantage of being able to be fitted to the data with greater precision.

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¹: Present address: Dept. of Physics, Indore University, Indore (M.P.), India.

²: Present address: Simmons College, Boston, Mass., USA.

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