nucleonbased
Nucleonbased is a term used in physics to describe a class of theoretical and computational approaches that describe atomic nuclei and nucleonic systems predominantly in terms of nucleons (protons and neutrons) and their interactions, rather than attempting to resolve subnucleonic degrees of freedom such as quarks and gluons. In this view, the nucleus is treated as a many-body system of nucleons governed by effective interactions that encode the underlying strong force at low energies.
Applications and models in the nucleonbased framework include the nuclear shell model, mean-field and energy density
Limitations of nucleonbased approaches include reliance on phenomenological potentials or truncated model spaces, with accuracy depending
Historically, the term is not a strict technical category but a descriptive label used across nuclear physics