A Liquid Model of Atomic Nuclei

Abstract

Heavy atomic nuclei ate treated under the assumption that each particle in them is vibrating in a cell formed by its neighbours. An average interaction potential, similar to that acting between two atoms or molecules, was assumed to exist between any two nuclear particles and the liquid theory of Lennard-Jones and I evonshire was used to calculate the binding energy and the radius of the nucleus. As far as the order of magnitude of the quantities employed and obtained is concerned, the results of the calculations agree with experiment and do not contradict with the data usually obtained from light nuclei