SHALOM SHLOMO

Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA

We review the current status of the nuclear matter (N=Z   and no Coulomb interaction) incompressibility coefficient, K_nm, and describe the theoretical and the experimental methods used to determine K_nm from properties of compression modes in nuclei. In particular we consider the long standing problem of the conflicting results obtained for K_nm, deduced from experimental data on excitation cross sections for the isoscalar giant monopole resonance (ISGMR) and data for the isoscalar giant dipole resonance (ISGDR).

Keywords:  Incompressibility; giant monopole resonance; isoscalar giant monopole resonance.

Pacs Nos.  21.65.+f; 24.30.Cz