Abstract
Using the Thomas-Fermi treatment and the leptodermous expansion in powers of A − 1 3 , we derive a formula for the nuclear level-density parameter a, which corrects the conventional expression for the presence of the diffuse surface region. This appears to remove the discrepancy (of about a factor of 1.7) between the empirical values of a A and those that would follow from considering the nucleus to be a simple Fermi gas at constant (bulk) density.
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