Liquid Drop Model for Nuclear Matter in the Dilute Limit

Emmert, Lukas; Frank, Rupert L. and König, Tobias (2020): Liquid Drop Model for Nuclear Matter in the Dilute Limit. In: Siam Journal on Mathematical Analysis, Vol. 52, No. 2: pp. 1980-1999

Abstract

We consider the liquid drop model for nuclei interacting with a neutralizing homogeneous Background: of electrons. The regime we are interested in is when the fraction between the electronic and the nuclear charge densities is small. We show that in this dilute limit the thermodynamic ground state energy is given to leading order by that of an isolated nucleus.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Faculties: Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics > Mathematics > Analysis, Mathematical Physics and Numerics
• Subjects: 500 Science > 510 Mathematics
• ISSN: 0036-1410
• Language: English