Symmetric nuclear matter properties in the linear Walecka model via a relativistic mean field approximation at zero temperature

Abstract

The properties of nuclear matter at zero temperature were considered. The equations of state (EOS) of nuclear matter were studied in the linear-Walecka model at different parameterizations. At normal nucleon density, there is a strong correlation among the different parameter sets, however the linear Walecka model gives values of nucleon effective mass M₀^* and nuclear incompressibility (K) at variance to the experimental values.The calculated values of the saturation density ranges from (0.142-0.148) fm^-3, compressional modulus (533.53-543.95)MeV for the LWM .The results of the numerical computations were compared with the empirical analysis of the giant isoscalar monopole resonance data.