Fitting theories of nuclear binding energies

Details Fitting theories of nuclear binding energies Fitting theories of nuclear binding energies

2004-12-22

arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0412091v2

Phys.Rev. C71 (2005) 054311

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

17 pages and 4 figures--version encorporates referee's comments

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevC.71.054311

In developing theories of nuclear binding energy such as density-functional theory, the effort required to make a fit can be daunting due to the large number of parameters that may be in the theory and the large number of nuclei in the mass table. For theories based on the Skyrme interaction, the effort can be reduced considerably by using the singular value decomposition to reduce the size of the parameter space. We find that the sensitive parameters define a space of dimension four or so, and within this space a linear refit is adequate for a number of Skyrme parameters sets from the literature. We do not find marked differences in the quality of the fit between the SLy4, the Bky4 and SkP parameter sets. The r.m.s. residual error in even-even nuclei is about 1.5 MeV, half the value of the liquid drop model. We also discuss an alternative norm for evaluating mass fits, the Chebyshev norm. It focuses attention on the cases with the largest discrepancies between theory and experiment. We show how it works with the liquid drop model and make some applications to models based on Skyrme energy functionals. The Chebyshev norm seems to be more sensitive to new experimental data than the root-mean-square norm. The method also has the advantage that candidate improvements to the theories can be assessed with computations on smaller sets of nuclei.

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