Nuclear Hartree-Fock calculations with a simple reaction matrix

doi:10.1016/0375-9474(70)90368-4

Nuclear Physics A

Volume 144, Issue 2, 6 April 1970, Pages 407-416

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Abstract

Self-consistent field (Hartree-Fock) calculations on several finite nuclei are presented. A non-local (momentum dependent) interaction is used. This interaction has some of the important structure of a reaction-matrix derived from realistic nucleon forces. It is adjusted to reproduce mass-formula parameters of Myers and Swiatecki. Good agreement with experimental binding energies and radii is obtained except for nuclei with A ≦ 16. Of considerable interest is the agreement with radii because the density of nuclear matter deduced by Myers and Swiatecki is 0.1365 fm⁻³ and this is considerably less than 0.17 or 0.19 fm⁻³ which have been the accepted values in most previous works. The binding energies of e.g. the Ca isotopes is considerably improved by adding a spin-orbit potential to the states of the least bound nucleons in the $j = l + 12$ shells.

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Nuclear Hartree-Fock calculations with a simple reaction matrix

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