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The Skyrme Energy Functional and Naturalness

arXiv:nucl-th/9708018 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.56.2875

Abstract

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.

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