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CHAPTER 1
The Liquid Drop Model
1.1 Introduction
The liquid drop model (LDM) of the nucleus was historically the firstmodel to be proposed as an explanation of the different properties of thenucleus. Since it has regained interest in recent times, we begin with ashort outline of this phenomenological model. Some aspects of this modelwill be taken up in the course of the book and explained from a moremicroscopic point of view. In this chapter we follow to a large extent thestandard representation as given in the texts of, for example, J. A.Eisenberg and W. Greiner [EG 70], A. de Shalit and H. Feshbach [SF 74],and A. Bohr and B. R. Mottelson [BM 75].
The idea of considering the nucleus as a liquid drop originally carnefrom considerations about its saturation properties (see below) and fromthe fact that the nucleus has a very low compressibility and a well definedsurface. However, as we shall see, it is rnisleading to take this point of viewtoo seriously, since in other respects a nucleus does not bear very muchresemblance to an ordinary liquido For instance, the mean distance of twoparticles in a liquid is roughly given by the value at which the interparticleforce has its minimum value, which for nuclei would be -0.7 fm. How-ever, nucleons in nuclei are, on the average, -2.4 fm apart. One reason forthis big difference as compared with an ordinary Iiquid is that the nucleonsobey Fermi statistics and a nucleus is thus a quantum fluido The PauliprincipIe prevents the nucleons from corning too close to one another.Thus scattering events are very scarce in a quantum fluid, whereas in anordinary fluid they are predominant.
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