A Lecture on the evaluation of atomic masses (L'évaluation des masses atomiques)

Georges Audi (1)

1 CSNSM - Centre de Spectrométrie Nucléaire et de Spectrométrie de Masse

The ensemble of experimental data on the 2830 nuclides which have been observed since the beginning of Nuclear Physics are being evaluated, according to their nature, by different methods and by different groups. The two "horizontal" evaluations in which I am involved: the Atomic Mass Evaluation AME and the NUBASE evaluation belong to the class of "static" nuclear data. In this lecture I will explain and discuss in detail the philosophy, the strategies and the procedures used in the evaluation of atomic masses.

Mots clés: Binding energies; atomic masses; horizontal evaluation; nuclear data; least-squares; predictions of unknown masses

Domaines: Physique Nucléaire Expérimentale [nucl-ex]

Georges Audi. A Lecture on the evaluation of atomic masses (L'évaluation des masses atomiques). Hyperfine Interactions, 2001, 132, n°1-4, pp.7-34. ⟨hal-00000190v2⟩