1997/08/09 by R. J. Furnstahl, James C. Hackworth · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #nucl-th #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevc.56.2875
published as Phys.Rev.C56:2875-2878,1997 · 8 pages, REVTeX 3.0 with epsf.sty, plus 2 figures
arxiv created 1997/08/09 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
Recent studies show that successful relativistic mean-field models of nuclei are consistent with naive dimensional analysis and naturalness, as expected in low-energy effective field theories of quantum chromodynamics. The nonrelativistic Skyrme energy functional is found to have similar characteristics.