Coefficients and terms of the liquid drop model and mass formula.pdf

a r X i v : n u c l - t h / 0 6 0 8 0 6 4 v 1 2 8 A u g 2 0 0 6 On the coefficients and terms of the liquid drop model and mass formula G. Royer and C. Gautier? Laboratoire Subatech, UMR : IN2P3/CNRS-Universite?-Ecole des Mines, 44307 Nantes Cedex 03, France, (Dated: February 8, 2008) The coefficients of different combinations of terms of the liquid drop model have been determined by a least square fitting procedure to the experimental atomic masses. The nuclear masses can also be reproduced using a Coulomb radius taking into account the increase of the ratio R0/A 1/3 with increasing mass, the fitted surface energy coefficient remaining around 18 MeV. PACS numbers: 21.10.Dr; 21.60.Ev; 21.60.Cs To predict the stability of new nuclides both in the superheavy element region and the regions close to the proton and neutron drip lines continuous efforts are still needed to determine the nuclear masses and therefore the binding energies of such exotic nuclei. Within a modelling of the nucleus by a charged liquid drop, semi- macroscopic models including a pairing energy have been firstly developed to reproduce the experimental nuclear masses [1, 2]. The coefficients of the Bethe-Weizsa?cker mass formula have been determined once again recently [3]. To reproduce the non-smooth behaviour of the masses (due to the magic number proximity, parity of the proton and neutron numbers,...) and other micro- scopic properties, macroscopic-microscopic approaches have been formulated, mainly the finite-range liquid drop model and the finite-range droplet model [4]. Nuclear masses have also been obtained accurately within the statistical Thomas-Fermi model with a well-chosen ef- fective interaction [5, 6]. Microscopic Hartree-Fock self- consistent calculations using mean-fields and Skyrme or Gogny forces and pairing correlations [7, 8] as well as rel- ativistic mean field theories [9] have also been developed to describe these nuclear masses. Finally, nuclear mass systematics using n