Some Aspects of Nuclear Structure in Relativistic Approach

The nucleon effective interaction in the nuclear medium is investigated in the framework of the DiracBrueckner-Hartree-Fock (DBHF) approach. A new decomposition of the Dirac structure of nucleon self-energy in the DBHF is adopted for asymmetric nuclear matter. The properties of finite nuclei are investigated with the nucleon effective interaction. The agreement with the experimental data is satisfactory. The relativistic microscopic optical potential in asymmetric nuclear matter is investigated in the DBHF approach. The proton scattering from nuclei is calculated and compared with the experimental data. A proper treatment of the resonant continuum for exotic nuclei is studied. The width effect of the resonant continuum on the pairing correlation is discussed. The quasiparticle relativistic random phase approximation based on the relativistic mean-field ground state in the response function formalism is also addressed.     

核势和核子有效质量的同位旋相关性

在Dirac Brueckner Hartree-Fock (DBHF)理论框架下研究了核子光学势和核子有效质量的同位旋相关性. 非对称核物质的计算采用了DBHF的核子自能的Dirac结构的新的分解方法, 核子自能的实部是用G矩阵在Hartree-Fock近似下计算得到, 而虚部从极化图得到. 用核子的薛定谔等价势可以得到核子矢量有效质量. 研究表明考虑了核势的能量相关性在丰中子核物质情况下核子矢量有效质量比质子的大.     

On the Dirac structure of the nucleon self-energy in nuclear matter

The relativistic structure of the self-energy of a nucleon in nuclear matter is investigated including the imaginary and real components which arise from the terms of first and second order in the NN interaction. A parameterized form of the Brueckner G-matrix is used for the NN interaction. The effects of the terms beyond the DBHF approximation on quasiparticle energies and the optical potential for nucleon-nucleus scattering are discussed.     

Isospin-dependent relativistic microscopic optical potential in the Dirac Brueckner-Hartree-Fock method

There is growing evidence to suggest that the binding energy of nucleon in nuclear matter comes from a cancellation between large Lorentz scalar and vector potentials[1,2]. The relativistic approach has been of a great success in describing not only the ground state properties of stable nuclei, but also those of exotic nuclei. In the relativistic frame, the spin-orbit coupling can be deduced automatically, which is usually given by hand in the non-relativistic approach. The relativistic method…     

Correlations and the Dirac structure of the nucleon self-energy

The Dirac structure of the nucleon self-energy in symmetric nuclear matter as well as neutron matter is derived from a realistic meson exchange model for the nucleon-nucleon (NN) interaction. It is demonstrated that the effects of correlations on the effective NN interaction in the nuclear medium can be parameterized by means of an effective meson exchange. This analysis leads to a very intuitive interpretation of correlation effects and also provides an efficient parametrization of an effective interaction to be used in relativistic structure calculations for finite nuclei. Received: 29 January 2001 / Accepted: 5 May 2001     

Transverse momenta of fragments of relativistic sulfur and lead nuclei after their interaction with track-emulsion nuclei at energies of 200 and 160 GeV per nucleon

Transverse-momentum distributions of doubly charged fragments of sulfur and lead nuclei having energies of 200 and 160 GeV per nucleon and interacting with nuclei in a track emulsion were investigated. No trace of compression or heating of nuclear matter in the interaction of these nuclei with track-emulsion nuclei was revealed experimentally. Transverse momenta of fragments of relativistic nuclei were found to obey a normal distribution that corresponds to a degenerate momentum distribution of nucleons in the ground state of a nucleus before its interaction with a track-emulsion nucleus. There is no piece of evidence that fragments of relativistic nuclei originate from some excited state of an intermediate nucleus. This picture of the fragmentation of relativistic nuclei complies with the naive parton model proposed by Feynman and Gribov. In summary, the fragmentation of relativistic nuclei at energies of 160 and 200 GeV per nucleon is cold and fast.     

DBHF方法和热力学自洽性

采用Dirac Brueckner-Hartree-Fock理论方法, 计算了零温核物质中每核子的结合能、压强和单核子能量, 着重讨论了不同的T矩阵协变表示对核物质中Hugenholtz-Van Hove(HVH)定理满足程度的影响. 结果表明: 不同的协变表示对核子自能各分量的动量相关性和密度依赖性均有重要影响, 进而对核介质中HVH定理的满足程度产生重要影响. 在完全的膺矢量表示下, HVH定理遭到了相当大程度的破坏, 从而体现出基态关联效应对单核子性质的重要性, 并与非相对论BHF理论方法得到的结论一致, 因而完全的膺矢量表示要优于膺标量表示.     

Halo nuclei studied by relativistic mean-field approach

Density distributions of light neutron-rich nuclei are studied by using the relativistic mean-field approach. The effective interaction which parameterizes the recent Dirac-Brueckner-Hartree-Fock calculations of nuclear matter is used. The results are discussed and compared with the experimental observations with special reference to theneutron halo in the drip-line nuclei.     

对关联对核基态和集体激发态性质的影响

基于相对论平均场和BCS理论,研究了共振连续对奇特核对关联性质的影响. 利用S矩阵方法，通过设定合理的散射态边界条件来得到单粒子共振态的能量和宽度. 通过引入连续态能级密度的方法来处理共振态宽度对核对关联的贡献. 计算结果显示合理地处理共振态对对关联性质的贡献在研究滴线附近核性质时很重要. 它可以影响中子的对隙、费米能级、对关联能以及总结合能. 其次,基于RMF+BCS基态,采用线性响应理论给出了描述开壳核集体激发态性质的准粒子相对论无规位相近似理论. 并且将该方法应用于开壳核120Sn的各种同位旋标量集体激发态性质的研究中. 研究表明：对关联对核的集体激发性质的影响主要表现在低能集体激发态上,考虑对关联后的相对论无规位相近似理论能够很好地再现低能集体激发的实验结果.     

Two-body correlations in nuclear systems

Correlations in the nuclear wave-function beyond the mean-field or Hartree-Fock approximation are very important to describe basic properties of nuclear structure. Various approaches to account for such correlations are described and compared to each other. This includes the holeline expansion, the coupled cluster or “exponential S” approach, the self-consistent evaluation of Greens functions, variational approaches using correlated basis functions and recent developments employing quantum Monte-Carlo techniques. Details of these correlations are explored and their sensitivity to the underlying nucleon-nucleon interaction. Special attention is paid to the attempts to investigate these correlations in exclusive nucleon knock-out experiments induced by electron scattering. Another important issue of nuclear structure physics is the role of relativistic effects as contained in phenomenological mean field models. The sensitivity of various nuclear structure observables on these relativistic features are investigated. The report includes the discussion of nuclear matter as well as finite nuclei.     

N－N关联和有限核相对论平均场方法

密度有关的核子－介子相互作用耦合常数是在相对论平均场近似下用核物质的相对论Ｂｒｕｅｃｋｎｅｒ－Ｈａｒｔｒｅｅ－Ｆｏｃｋ近似计算的自能参数化得到的．这种密度有关的相互作用考虑了介质中Ｎ－Ｎ关联效应，用这种密度有关的相互作用来研究有限核的基态性质，如单粒子能级，平均结合能，电荷均方根半径，与实验值较好地符合，同时还与其它模型的结果进行了比较。     

The nuclear symmetry energy from relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock model

The microscopic mechanisms of the symmetry energy in nuclear matter are investigated in the framework of the relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (RBHF) model with a high-precision realistic nuclear potential, pvCDBonn A. The kinetic energy and potential contributions to symmetry energy are decomposed. They are explicitly expressed by the nucleon self-energies, which are obtained through projecting the G-matrices from the RBHF model into the terms of Lorentz covariants. The nuclear medium effects on the nucleon self-energy and nucleon-nucleon interaction in symmetry energy are discussed by comparing the results from the RBHF model and those from Hartree-Fock and relativistic Hartree-Fock models. It is found that the nucleon self-energy including the nuclear medium effect on the single-nucleon wave function provides a largely positive contribution to the symmetry energy, while the nuclear medium effect on the nucleon-nucleon interaction, i.e., the effective G-matrices provides a negative contribution. The tensor force plays an essential role in the symmetry energy around the density. The scalar and vector covariant amplitudes of nucleon-nucleon interaction dominate the potential component of the symmetry energy. Furthermore, the isoscalar and isovector terms in the optical potential are extracted from the RBHF model. The isoscalar part is consistent with the results from the analysis of global optical potential, while the isovector one has obvious differences at higher incident energy due to the relativistic effect.     

Proton radioactivity with a Yukawa effective interaction

The half-lives of proton radioactivity of proton emitters are investigated theoretically. Proton-nucleus interaction potentials are obtained by folding the densities of the daughter nuclei with a finite-range effective nucleon-nucleon interaction having Yukawa form. The Wood-Saxon density distributions for the nuclei used in calculating the nuclear as well as the Coulomb interaction potentials are predictions of the interaction. The quantum mechanical tunneling probability is calculated within the WKB framework. These calculations provide reasonable estimates for the observed proton radioactivity lifetimes. The effects of neutron-proton effective mass splitting in neutron-rich asymmetric matter as well as the nuclear matter incompressibility on the decay probability are investigated.     

Self-consistent description of finite nuclei based on a relativistic quark model

Relativistic Hartree equations for spherical nuclei have been derived from a relativistic quark model of the structure of bound nucleons which interact through the (self-consistent) exchange of scalar (σ) and vector (ω and ϱ) mesons. The coupling constants and the mass of the σ-meson are determined from the properties of symmetric nuclear matter and the rms charge radius in ⁴⁰Ca. Calculated properties of static, closed-shell nuclei from ¹⁶O to ²⁰⁸Pb are compared with experimental data and with results of Quantum Hadrodynamics (QHD). The dependence of the results on the nucleon size and the quark mass is investigated. Several possible extensions of the model are also discussed.     

Dissolution of shell structures in exotic nuclei

Nuclear many-body theory is used to study nuclear matter and finite nuclei at extreme isospin. In-medium interactions in asymmetric nuclear matter are obtained from (Dirac-) Brueckner theory. Neutron skin formation in Ni and Sn isotopes is investigated in relativistic DDRH theory with density dependent meson-nucleon vertices. Applications to light nuclei are discussed with special emphasis on pairing and core polarization in weakly bound nuclei. The calculations show that shell structures are dissolving when the driplines are approached.     

核子相对论微观光学势、薛定谔等效势和平均自由程对核密度及温度的依赖关系

在Walecka模型的基础上,应用热动力学理论和Dirac-Bruckner-Hartree-Fock方法,研究了有限温度不同密度下核子相对论微观光学势及其相应的薛定谔等效势和平均自由程.计算结果表明,核子薛定谔等效势和平均自由程对核密度的依赖相当敏感,当核密度增大时对核密度的依赖变得更为敏感.     

Critical Temperature of Lequid-gas Phase Transition for Hot Nuclear Matter and Three-body Force Effect

The finite temperature Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (FTBHF) approach is extended by introducing a microscopic three-body force. Within the extended approach, the three-body force effects on the equation of state of hot nuclear matter and its temperature dependence have been investigated. The critical properties of the liquid-gas phase transition of hot nuclear matter have been calculated. It is shown that the three-body force provides a repulsive contribution to the equation of state of hot nuclear matter. The repulsive effect of the three-body force becomes more pronounced as the density and temperature increase and consequently inclusion of the three-body force contribution in the calculation reduces the predicted critical temperature from about 16MeV to about 13MeV. By separating the contribution originated from the 2σ-exchange process coupled to the virtual excitation of a nucleon-antinucleon pair from the full three-body force, the connection between the three-body force effect and the relativistic correction from the Dirac-Brueckner-Hartree-Fock has been explored. It turns out that the contribution of the 2σ-NN part is more repulsive than that of the full three-body force and the calculated critical temperature is about 11MeV if only the 2σ-NN component of the three-body force is included which is lower than the value obtained in the case of including the full three-body force and is close to the value predicted by the Dirac-Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (DBHF) approach. Our result provides a reasonable explanation for the discrepancy between the values of critical temperature predicted from the FTBHF approach including the three-body force and the DBHF approach.     

The study of the binding energy of nuclear matter in the relativistic σ− ω− π model with Δ isobar degree of freedom

The relativistic σ?ω?π model is proposed and used to calculate the binding energy of relativistic nuclear matter. By coupling Δ isobar to the σ meson, the zero-point fluctuation energy of the Δ isobar in the one loop approximation is derived. We calculate the effective mass of nucleon and Δ isobar, exchange and correlation energies, pressure and incompressibility of nuclear matter. The density dependence correction to σNN ωNN coupling constants is a very important mechanism to saturate the binding energy. The pion propagator is nuclear matter is constructed by the relativistic particle-hole, delta-hole and short-range correlation. The pion dispersion relation is calculated we find it’s very sensitive to the effective mass of nucleon and Δ isobar.