Proton-neutron pairing and binding energies of nuclei close to N=Z line

D. Negrea, N. Sandulescu, D. Gambacurta

We analyse the contribution of isovector and isoscalar proton-neutron pairing to the binding energies of even-even nuclei with $N-Z=0,2,4$ and atomic mass $20<A<100$. The bindin…