Interplay of three-body interactions in the EOS of nuclear matter

DOI10.1016/S0375-9474(02)00750-9zbMATH Open0995.81539arXivnucl-th/0202076OpenAlexW3104193759MaRDI QIDQ1599059FDOQ1599059

Authors: R. Smith 

Publication date: 4 June 2002

Published in: Nuclear Physics. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The equation of state of symmetric nuclear matter has been investigated within Brueckner approach adopting the charge-dependent Argonne $V_{18}$ two-body force plus a microscopic three-body force based on a meson-exchange model. The effects on the equation of state of the individual processes giving rise to the three-body force are explored up to high baryonic density. It is found that the major role is played by the competition between the strongly repulsive $(sigma,omega)$ exchange term with virtual nucleon-antinucleon excitation and the large attractive contribution due to $(sigma,omega)$ exchange with $N^{\ast }(1440)$ resonance excitation. The net result is a repulsive term which shifts the saturation density corresponding to the only two-body force much closer to the empirical value, while keeping constant the saturation energy per particle. The contribution from $(pi,ho)$ exchange 3BF is shown to be attractive and rather small. The analysis of the separate three-body force contributions allows to make a comparison with the prediction of Dirac-Brueckner approach which is supposed to incorporate via the {it dressed} Dirac spinors the same virtual nucleon-antinucleon excitations as in the present three-body force. The numerical results suggest that the three-body force components missing from the Dirac-Brueckner approach are not negligible, especially at high density. The calculation of the nuclear mean field and the effective mass shows that the three-body force affects to a limited extent such properties.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0202076

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zbMATH Keywords

Brueckner approachN\(^*\) excitationvirtual nucleon-antinucleon excitation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35)

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