Moving Average as an Alternative Technique in Determination of Nuclear Shell Correction

Rizal Kurniadi (Department of Physics, Nuclear Physics and Biophysics Research Division, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institut Teknologi Bandung,)
Yuda Satya Perkasa (Department of Physics, Nuclear Physics and Biophysics Research Division, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institut Teknologi Bandung,)
Abdul Waris (Department of Physics, Nuclear Physics and Biophysics Research Division, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institut Teknologi Bandung)

Indonesian Journal of Physics (IJP)
Vol 21 No 4 (2010): Vol. 21 No. 4, October 2010

Since Strutinsky has proposed shell correction for calculating nuclear mass at 1967, there are many studies concerning this topic. These former researches used the expansion of a Dirac delta function which uses hermite polynomials as a method. This paper discusses about an alternative technique to calculate shell correction by employing a moving average method. The results show that, although the proposed method can produce the shell correction, it still has enough discrepancies compared to the experimental nuclear mass.