MEAN-FIELD DESCRIPTION OF NUCLEAR-CHARGE DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS

We propose a method to extract nuclear charge distributions from elast ic electron-scattering data based upon a mean-field approach. The nucl ear charge distributions are generated by solving the Schrodinger equa tion with a mean-field potential expanded in terms of Hermite function s. The coefficients of the potential are changed in order to obtain th e best fit with the cross-section data. Applications to the C-12, O-16 , Ca-40 and Pb-208 nuclei are presented.