Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2002-05-17
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
19 pages, 3 figures, REVTeX4, minor corrections
Scientific paper
In an effective hadronic theory constructed to describe long-range nuclear physics, the dynamics of the vacuum can be expanded in terms with zero or a finite number of derivatives acting on the fields. Thus vacuum dynamics can always be absorbed in the (infinite number of) counterterm parameters necessarily present in the effective lagrangian. These finite parameters, which at present must be fitted to data, encode the empirical vacuum physics as well as other short-range dynamics into the effective lagrangian; in practice, only a small number of parameters must be fitted. The strength of the effective field theory (EFT) framework is that there is no need to make a concrete picture of the vacuum dynamics, as one does in a renormalizable hadronic theory. At the one-loop level, the most convenient renormalization scheme requires explicit sums over long-range (``valence'') nucleon orbitals only, thus explaining the so-called ``no-sea approximation'' used in successful covariant mean-field theory (MFT) calculations of static ground states. When excited states are studied in the random-phase approximation (RPA), the same EFT scheme dictates the inclusion of both familiar particle-hole pairs and contributions that mix valence and negative-energy single-particle Dirac wave functions. The modern EFT strategy therefore justifies and explains the omission of some explicit contributions from the negative-energy Dirac sea of nucleons, as was done to maintain conservation laws in earlier pragmatic calculations of the nuclear linear response.
Furnstahl R. J.
Piekarewicz Jorge
Serot Brian D.
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