Published October 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Further explorations of Skyrme-Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov mass formulas. III. Role of particle-number projection

  • 1. Departement de Physique, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3J7 (Canada)
  • 2. Service de Physique Nucleaire Theorique et de Physique Mathematique, Universite Libre de Bruxelles-CP229, 1050 Brussels (Belgium)
  • 3. Institut d'Astronomie et d'Astrophysique, ULB-CP226, 1050 Brussels (Belgium)

Description

Starting from HFB-6, we have constructed a new mass table, referred to as HFB-8, including all the 9200 nuclei lying between the two drip lines over the range of Z and N≥8 and Z≤120. It differs from HFB-6 in that the wave function is projected on the exact particle number. Like HFB-6, the isoscalar effective mass Ms* is constrained to the value 0.80M and the pairing is density independent. The rms errors of the mass-data fit is 0.635 MeV, i.e. better than almost all our previous HFB mass formulas. The extrapolations of this new mass formula out to the drip lines do not differ significantly from the previous HFB-6 mass formula

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Journal Title
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
Journal Volume
70
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 044309-044309.9
ISSN
0556-2813
CODEN
PRVCAN

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(c) 2004 The American Physical Society