NUCLEAR-MATTER WITH A PSEUDO-PARTICLE MODEL - STATIC BULK AND SURFACE-PROPERTIES

Direct calculations of cold and hot nuclear matter (bulk and surface p roperties) are carried out within the frame of a pseudo-particle model using a gaussian decomposition of the distribution function. Comparis ons with Hartree-Fock calculations, for a large class of effective int eractions, show that such a model is reliable to reproduce accurately the equation of state of nuclear matter for large ranges of densities and temperatures. The number of gaussians per nucleon and the gaussian widths are critical parameters in that semi-classical model.