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Nuclear ground-state masses and deformations: FRDM(2012)

Nuclear Theory 2016-05-04 v1

Abstract

We tabulate the atomic mass excesses and binding energies, ground-state shell-plus-pairing corrections, ground-state microscopic corrections, and nuclear ground-state deformations of 9318 nuclei ranging from 16^{16}O to A=339A=339. The calculations are based on the finite-range droplet macroscopic model and the folded-Yukawa single-particle microscopic model. Relative to our FRDM(1992) mass table in {\sc Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables} [{\bf 59} 185 (1995)], the results are obtained in the same model, but with considerably improved treatment of deformation and fewer of the approximations that were necessary earlier, due to limitations in computer power. The more accurate execution of the model and the more extensive and more accurate experimental mass data base now available allows us to determine one additional macroscopic-model parameter, the density-symmetry coefficient LL, which was not varied in the previous calculation, but set to zero. Because we now realize that the FRDM is inaccurate for some highly deformed shapes occurring in fission, because some effects are derived in terms of perturbations around a sphere, we only adjust its macroscopic parameters to ground-state masses. The values of ten constants are determined directly from an optimization to fit ground-state masses of 2149 nuclei ranging from 16^{16}O to 106265^{265}_{106}Sg and 108264^{264}_{108}Hs. The error of the mass model is 0.5595~MeV. We also provide masses in the FRLDM, which in the more accurate treatments now has an error of 0.6618 MeV. But in contrast to the FRDM, it is suitable for studies of fission and has been extensively so applied elsewhere, with FRLDM(2002) constants. The FRLDM(2012) fits 31 fission barrier heights from 70^{70}Se to 252^{252}Cf with a root-mean-square deviation of 1.052 MeV.

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@article{arxiv.1508.06294,
  title  = {Nuclear ground-state masses and deformations: FRDM(2012)},
  author = {P. Moller and A. J. Sierk and T. Ichikawa and H. Sagawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.06294},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

233 pages, 41 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:nucl-th/9308022

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