Theoretical understanding of the nuclear incompressibility : where do we stand ?

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The status of the theoretical research on the compressional modes of finite nuclei and the incompressibility K∞ of nuclear matter, is reviewed. It is argued that the recent experimental data on the Isoscalar Giant Monopole Resonance (ISGMR) allow extracting the value of K∞ with an uncertainity of about ± 15 MeV. Non-relativistic (Skyrme, Gogny) and relativistic mean field models predict for K∞ ...

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