Eur. Phys. J. A (2005) 25: 71-74
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjad/i2005-06-022-4

ENAM 2004

Recent progress in mass predictions

¹ Institut d’Astronomie et d’Astrophysique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP 226, 1050, Brussels, Belgium
² Déptartement de Physique, Université de Montréal, (QC) H3C 3J7, Montréal, Canada
³ Institut de Physique Nucléaire, IN2P3-CNRS, 91406, Orsay, France

^* e-mail: sgoriely@astro.ulb.ac.be

Received: 13 October 2004
Accepted: 18 February 2005
Published online: 18 April 2005

Abstract

We review the latest efforts devoted to the global prediction of atomic masses. Special attention is paid to the new developments made within the Hartree-Fock-Bogolyubov framework. So far, 9 HFB mass tables based on different parametrizations of the effective interactions in the Hartree-Fock and pairing channels have been published. We analyze their ability to reproduce experimental masses as well as nuclear-matter and giant-resonance properties. The possibility to derive within the HFB framework a universal effective interaction that can describe all known properties of the nuclei (including their masses) and of asymmetric nuclear matter is critically discussed.