Determining Modern Energy Functional for Properties of Nuclei And Nuclear Matter

The development of an energy density functional (EDF) for the interacting nuclear system is very important for the study of properties of nuclei away from the valley of stability and astrophysical systems. Current literature lists over 300 EDF's based on Skryme-type nucleon-nucleon effective interactions whose parameter sets are fixed according to different ranges of experimental data, and most of which fail to predict an unbound $^{28}$O nucleus. I vary the parameters of Skryme-type nucleon-nucleon effective interaction KDE0v1 using Hartree-Fock-based approximations to obtain a new interaction KDE0v1* that leaves oxygen-28 unbound. This new interaction KDE0v1* accomplishes this while calculating binding energies consistent with a wide range of known nuclear masses. This will contribute predictions that can be used to determine properties of neutron stars and the location of the neutron dripline.