Nuclear energy density functional from chiral pion-nucleon dynamics: Isovector spin-orbit terms

Details Nuclear energy density functional from chiral pion-nucleon dynamics: Isovector spin-orbit terms Nuclear energy density functional from chiral pion-nucleon dynamics: Isovector spin-orbit terms

2003-12-16

arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0312059v1

Phys.Rev. C68 (2003) 014323

Physics

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Theory

9 pages, 3 figure, published in: Physical Review C68, 014323 (2003)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevC.68.014323

We extend a recent calculation of the nuclear energy density functional in the systematic framework of chiral perturbation theory by computing the isovector spin-orbit terms: $(\vec \nabla \rho_p- \vec \nabla \rho_n)\cdot(\vec J_p-\vec J_n) G_{so}(k_f)+ (\vec J_p-\vec J_n)^2 G_J(k_f)$. The calculation includes the one-pion exchange Fock diagram and the iterated one-pion exchange Hartree and Fock diagrams. From these few leading order contributions in the small momentum expansion one obtains already a good equation of state of isospin-symmetric nuclear matter. We find that the parameterfree results for the (density-dependent) strength functions $G_{so}(k_f)$ and $G_J(k_f)$ agree fairly well with that of phenomenological Skyrme forces for densities $\rho > \rho_0/10$. At very low densities a strong variation of the strength functions $G_{so}(k_f)$ and $G_J(k_f)$ with density sets in. This has to do with chiral singularities $m_\pi^{-1}$ and the presence of two competing small mass scales $k_f$ and $m_\pi$. The novel density dependencies of $G_{so}(k_f)$ and $G_J(k_f)$ as predicted by our parameterfree (leading order) calculation should be examined in nuclear structure calculations.

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