Light front theory of nuclear matter
Abstract
A relativistic light front formulation of nuclear dynamics is applied to infinite nuclear matter. A hadronic meson-baryon Lagrangian, consistent with chiral symmetry, leads to a nuclear eigenvalue problem which is solved, including nucleon-nucleon NN correlations, in the one-boson-exchange approximation for the NN potential. The nuclear matter saturation properties are reasonably well reproduced, with a compression modulus of 180 MeV. We find that there are ~0.05 excess pions per nucleon. 1999 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.
- Publication:
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Physics Letters B
- Pub Date:
- May 1999
- DOI:
- 10.1016/S0370-2693(99)90042-4
- arXiv:
- arXiv:nucl-th/9811050
- Bibcode:
- 1999PhLB..455...19M
- Keywords:
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- Nuclear Theory;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 6 pages, Revtex, one figure