Mass Number Dependence of Nuclear Pairing
  Large scale Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) calculations with the finite-range   Gogny force D1S have been performed in order to extract the corresponding theoretical average mass dependence of the nuclear gap values. Good agreement with experimental data from the three-point filter   $\Delta^{(3)}$(N) with N odd has been found for both the neutron and proton gaps. The study confirms earlier findings [W. Satula,   J. Dobaczewski, and W. Nazarewicz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81 3599 (1998)] that the mass dependence of the gap is much weaker than the so far accepted 12/$\sqrtA$ MeV law. 
S. Hilaire (Bruyeres-le-Chatel), J.-F. Berger (Bruyeres-le-Chatel), M.   Girod (Bruyeres-le-Chatel), W. Satula (Univ. of War...