Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2004-10-14
Phys.Rev.C71:015203,2005
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
9 pages, 4figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.71.015203
We present a novel approach to the density dependent mean field and the spin-orbit interaction of a $\Lambda$-hyperon in a nuclear many-body system, based on flavor-SU(3) in-medium chiral perturbation theory. The leading long-range $\Lambda N$-interaction arises from kaon exchange and from two-pion exchange with a $\Sigma$-hyperon in the intermediate state. The empirical $\Lambda$-nucleus potential depth of about $-28 $MeV is well reproduced with a single cutoff scale, $\bar \Lambda = 0.7 $GeV, effectively representing all short-distance (high-momentum) dynamics not resolved at scales characteristic of the nuclear Fermi momentum. This value of $\bar\Lambda$ is remarkably consistent with the one required to reproduce the empirical saturation point of isospin-symmetric nuclear matter in the same framework. The smallness of the $\Lambda$-nuclear spin-orbit interaction finds a natural (yet novel) explanation in terms of an almost complete cancellation between short-range contributions (properly rescaled from the known nucleonic spin-orbit coupling strength) and long-range terms generated by iterated one-pion exchange with intermediate $\Sigma$-hyperons. The small $\Sigma\Lambda$-mass difference figures prominently in this context.
Kaiser Nicholas
Weise Wolfram
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