SeaLL1: A Minimal Nuclear Energy Density Functional*

In this talk I shall describe our recently proposed SeaLL1 nuclear energy density functional (NEDF).  SeaLL1 is systematically constructed to contain the minimal number of phenomenological parameters (7), each related to a specific nuclear property.  Despite this minimal nature, it provides remarkable global mass and radius fits, comparable or better than with current state-of-the-art NEDFs that contain often many more parameters.  Despite only being fit to static phenomena, SeaLL1 displays very reasonable dynamical properties such as fission barriers, suggesting a new paradigm for improving nuclear DFT calculations.