Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2003-12-16
Eur.Phys.J. A21 (2004) 117-131
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
24 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in: Eur. Phys. J. A
Scientific paper
10.1140/epja/i2003-10179-x
We extend a recent chiral approach to nuclear matter by including the most general (momentum-independent) NN-contact interaction. Iterating this two-parameter contact-vertex with itself and with one-pion exchange the emerging energy per particle exhausts all terms possible up-to-and-including fourth order in the small momentum expansion. The equation of state of pure neutron matter, $\bar E_n(k_n)$, can be reproduced very well up to quite high neutron densities of $\rho_n=0.5\fmd$ by adjusting the strength of a repulsive $nn$-contact interaction. Binding and saturation of isospin-symmetric nuclear matter is a generic feature of our perturbative calculation. Fixing the maximum binding energy per particle to $-\bar E(k_{f0})= 15.3 $MeV we find that any possible equilibrium density $\rho_0$ lies below $\rho_0^{\rm max}=0.191\fmd$. The additional constraint from the neutron matter equation of state leads however to a somewhat too low saturation density of $\rho_0 =0.134 \fmd$. We also investigate the effects of the NN-contact interaction on the complex single-particle potential $U(p,k_f)+i W(p,k_f)$. We find that the effective nucleon mass at the Fermi-surface is bounded from below by $M^*(k_{f0}) \geq 1.4 M$. This property keeps the critical temperature of the liquid-gas phase transition at somewhat too high values $T_c \geq 21 $MeV. The downward bending of the asymmetry energy $A(k_f)$ above nuclear matter saturation density is a generic feature of the approximation to fourth order. Altogether, there is within this complete fourth-order calculation no "magic" set of adjustable short-range parameters with which one could reproduce simultaneously and accurately all semi-empirical properties of nuclear matter.
Fritsch S.
Kaiser Nicholas
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