Radial basis function approach in nuclear mass predictions
- 30 August 2013
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review C
- Vol. 88 (2)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.88.024325
Abstract
The radial basis function (RBF) approach is applied in predicting nuclear masses for 8 widely used nuclear mass models, ranging from macroscopic-microscopic to microscopic types. A significantly improved accuracy in computing nuclear masses is obtained, and the corresponding rms deviations with respect to the known masses is reduced by up to 78%. Moreover, strong correlations are found between a target nucleus and the reference nuclei within about three unit in distance, which play critical roles in improving nuclear mass predictions. Based on the latest Weizs\"{a}cker-Skyrme mass model, the RBF approach can achieve an accuracy comparable with the extrapolation method used in atomic mass evaluation. In addition, the necessity of new high-precision experimental data to improve the mass predictions with the RBF approach is emphasized as well.Comment: 18 pages, 8 figureKeywords
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