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A Powerful New Energy Density Functional

Nuclear Theory 2022-12-20 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

We describe the most recent energy density functional derived within the quark meson coupling model. Although fit to the binding energies and charge radii of just seventy magic nuclei, the accuracy with which it reproduces nuclear properties across the entire periodic table is outstanding. As well as outlining a number of those results, we present an argument explaining why having a physically motivated model with a small number of parameters is especially desirable as one seeks to make predictions in new regions of N and Z. As an example we show the predictions for known super-heavy nuclei that were not included in the fit.

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@article{arxiv.2212.09228,
  title  = {A Powerful New Energy Density Functional},
  author = {Anthony W Thomas and Pierre A M Guichon and Jesper Leong and K L Martinez-Paglinawan and J R Stone},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.09228},
  year   = {2022}
}

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