Properties of symmetric nuclear matter with Skyrme interactions

Abstract

Symmetric nuclear matter properties such as binding energy, pressure, saturation density and incompressibility are investigated in the Skyrme Hartree-Fock model. A new set of Skyrme parameters for symmetric nuclear matter is obtained by the fitting of Variational Monte Carlo method results to density-dependent Skyrme type energy. The results obtained are in good agreement with those obtained with selected Skyrme parameter sets in the literature.