Relativistic mean-field model with density-dependent meson-nucleon couplings
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arXiv:nucl-th/0703039v1 13 Mar 20071Relativisticmean-fieldmodelwithdensity-dependentmeson-nucleoncouplings
KentaMinagawa,MasahiroKawabataandKoichiSaitoDepartmentofPhysics,FacultyofScienceandTechnology,TokyoUniversityofScience,Noda278-8510,Japan
Withintherelativisticmean-fieldapproach,weextendtheMiyazakimodel,wheretheNNσandNNωinteractionsaremodifiedtosuppressthecouplingsbetweenpositive-andnegative-energystatesofanucleoninmatter.Assumingappropriatedensity-dependenceofthemeson-nucleoncouplings,westudynuclearmatterandfinitenuclei.Themodelcanreproducetheobservedpropertiesof16Oand40Cawell.Wealsoexamineifthemodelisnatural.
Recently,therelativisticmean-fieldapproachwithdensity-dependentmeson-nucleoncouplingsdrawsmuchattention.1)ItisaneffectivemodelfortheDirac-Brueckner-Hartree-Fock(DBHF)theory,2)whichcanreproducethesaturationprop-ertyofnuclearmatterusingtheone-bosonexchangepotentialsextractedfromthenucleon-nucleonscatteringdata.IntheDBHFcalculation,therelativisticeffectprovidesastrongdensity-dependentrepulsion,whichisoriginatedfromthenucleon-antinucleonpairterm(Zgraph),anditisvitaltoobtainthenuclearsaturationproperty.Itshouldbenoticedthatanuclearmodelbasedonthequarksubstructureofanucleon,forexample,thequark-mesoncoupling(QMC)model,3)thequark-meanfield(QMF)model,4)alsogivesdensity-dependentmeson-nucleoncouplingsthroughthescalarfieldinanuclearmedium,namelythescalarpolarizability.3)Thus,itseemsquitenaturalthatthemeson-nucleoncouplingsdependonthenuclearenvironment.Aboutadecadeago,Miyazaki5)hasproposedaninteresting,relativisticmean-fieldmodelfornuclearmatter,inwhichtheNNσandNNωverticesaremodifiedtoreducethecouplingsbetweenpositive-andnegative-energystatesofthein-mediumnucleon(the+−couplings).Althoughthe+−couplingsplayanimportantroleintherelativisticnuclearmodelsincludingnucleon-nucleus(NA)scattering(withtherelativisticimpulseapproximation(RIA))atintermediateenergies,itisknownthattheeffectofthecouplingtonegativestatesistoostrongtoproducetheNAscatter-ingobservablesatlowenergies.6)TjonandWallacehaveremediedthisproblembydevelopingageneralizedRIA,inwhichthedifferent+−couplingsfromtheusualRIAareintroduced.6)ThevertexmodificationstudiedbyMiyazaki5)mayenableustoincludesuchvariationofthe+−couplingsattherelativisticmean-fieldlevel.Themodifiedverticesfinallyresultinthedensity-dependentNNσandNNωcouplings,whichcansimultaneouslyreproducethenuclearmatterpropertiesandtheDiracscalarandvectoropticalpotentialsgivenbytheDBHFcalculation.InthisLetter,wegeneralizetheMiyazakimodel,andstudynotonlythenuclearmatterpropertiesbutalsosingle-particleenergiesoffinitenuclei.Lastly,wediscussnaturalnessofthemodel.7)
typesetusingPTPTEX.clsVer.0.92WenowmodifytheverticesofNNσandNNωcouplingsusingtheenergyprojec-tionoperators,Λ±(p)=(±/p+M)/2M,wherepisthefour-momentumofanucleonandMisthemass.Sincethevertex,Γ(=Iorγµ),isexpressedby
Γ=Λ+(p′)ΓΛ+(p)+Λ−(p′)ΓΛ−(p)+Λ+(p′)ΓΛ−(p)+Λ−(p′)ΓΛ+(p),(1)itmaybepossibletovarythestrengthofthe+−couplings,introducingtwoparam-eters,0≤λ1,λ2≤1,as5)
Γ→λ1[Λ+(p′)ΓΛ+(p)+Λ−(p′)ΓΛ−(p)]+λ2[Λ+(p′)ΓΛ−(p)+Λ−(p′)ΓΛ+(p)],(2)=(λ1−λ2)/p′Γ/p+(λ1+λ2)ΓM2
ρ0
b
,(4)
whereρ0isthesaturationdensity,andeachλhastwoparameters,aandb.Notethat,inthelimitρv→0,ΓisidenticaltotheoriginalformEq.(1).Usingthevertex(3)andthemean-fieldapproximationforthemesonfields,theLagrangiandensityisgivenby5)
L=¯ψ(/ˆp−M)ψ−12m2ωω2+gσ
2M2[(λv1−λv2)(¯ψ/←−ˆp)γ0(/ˆpψ)+(λv1+λv2)M2¯ψγ0ψ]ω,(5)whereσandωarerespectivelythemean-fieldvaluesoftheσandωmesons,andλs(v)i(i=1,2)istheparameterforthescalar(vector)vertex.ThemesonmassandtheNNσ(ω)couplingconstantinvacuumarerespectivelydenotedbymσ(ω)andgσ(ω).FollowingtheprescriptionexplainedinRef.5),wecanconstructaneffectiveLagrangiandensity,inwhichtheeffectofvariationofthe+−couplingsinmatterisincluded,
Leff=¯ψ(/ˆp−γ0Uv−M∗)ψ−12m2ωω2,(6)
wheretheeffectivenucleonmass,M∗,andtheDiracscalar,Us,andvector,Uv,potentialsinmatteraredefinedas
M−M∗=g∗σσ=−Us,Uv=g∗ωω,(7)3withtheeffectivecouplingconstantsg∗σ=1
2[(λv1+λv2)−(λv1−λv2)(m∗2−v2)]gω,(9)m∗=M∗/Mandv=Uv/M.Notethat,whenλs1=λv2=1,theeffectivecoupling
constantscoincidewiththoseintheMiyazakimodel.Theenergypernucleon,W,forsymmetricnuclearmatteristhenwrittenby
W=34M∗ρsCsˆρ1−m∗
Cvˆρv
a3sbsˆρ(1−m∗),Cv=4cρv
−2(λv1−λv2)m∗v,(14)
bv=λs1+λs2−(λs1−λs2)(m∗2−2m∗+v2)+2(λs1−λs2)(1−m∗)vρs