Eur. Phys. J. Plus (2018) 133: 434
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2018-12244-2

Review

From the liquid drop model to lattice QCD

A brief history of nuclear interactions

IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

^* e-mail: vittorio.soma@cea.fr

Received: 13 June 2018
Accepted: 4 August 2018
Published online: 24 October 2018

Abstract

The present article aims to give a concise account of the main developments in nuclear structure theory, from its origin in the 1930s to date, taking the modelling of inter-nucleon interactions as guideline.