Consistency of nuclear mass formulae

Abstract

The general scepticism and loss of faith on the predictive ability of different mass formulae, arising out of the divergence of their predictions in unknown regions taken with respect to a reference mass formula, is successfully dispelled. When the result of relativistic mean field (RMF) theory with a Lagrangian common for all nuclei is taken as reference, the divergence disappears, and clear trend with strong correlation appears restoring our faith in general on the predictions of mass formulae, qualifying them as useful guideline for theoretical and experimental studies of nuclear phenomena.