Possible improvements in the infinite nuclear matter model of atomic nuclei

The recently developed Infinite Nuclear Matter (INM) model of atomic nuclei been found to be successful both in predicting nuclear masses far away from the β stable valley as well as the nuclear saturation properties. More importantly the constituent local energy η of the model which happens to be characteristic of a given nucleus, has been found to exhibit typical shell structure in the form of sharp hills signify the magic shell-closure for closed shell nuclei followed by troughs for deformed nuclei when plotted as isolines. Consequently mapping of these local energy isolines in the exotic neutron-rich regions of the nuclear chart was found to smear out the signifying structure indicating strong quenching of the other-wise closed shell-structure, in agreement with recent astrophysical nuclidic-abundance studies and experimental observations