Is there a formula for the elusive binding energy of heavy nuclei?

[Orion1]

Binding Energy...

Is there a semi-empirical binding energy formula for the heavy nuclear 'island of stability'?

The attachments are a plot of the nucleotide chart based upon the semi-empirical binding energy formula for the liquid drop model:

'12a' is a surface plot.
'12b' is a density plot.

The axis are:
x - proton number
y - neutron number
z - binding energy per atomic mass unit (Mev*amu^-1)

I am still in the rough with this software, however anyone's critiques, corrections are welcome.

 

[arivero]

Fast answer is no, because stability is always due to the microscopic correction, not to the liquid drop properties. Now, most modern models use a micro-macro formula, so they predict the island.

Check the references of my http://citebase.eprints.org/cgi-bin/citations?id=oai:arXiv.org:nucl-th/0312003 especially Moller et al. and Lunney et al.