Giant Resonances using Correlated Realistic Interactions: The Case for Second RPA

dc.creatorPapakonstantinou, P.
dc.creatorRoth, R.
dc.date2007-09-20
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dc.descriptionLately we have been tackling the problem of describing nuclear collective excitations starting from correlated realistic nucleon-nucleon (NN) interactions. The latter are constructed within the Unitary Correlation Operator Method (UCOM), starting from realistic NN potentials. It has been concluded that first-order RPA with a two-body UCOM interaction is not capable, in general, of reproducing quantitatively the properties of giant resonances (GRs), due to missing higher-order configurations and long-range correlations as well as neglected three-body terms in the Hamiltonian. Here we report results on GRs obtained by employing a UCOM interaction based on the Argonne V18 potential in Second RPA (SRPA) calculations. The same interaction is used to describe the Hartree-Fock (HF) ground state and the residual interactions. We find that the inclusion of second-order configurations -- which effectively dress the underlying HF single-particle states with self-energy insertions -- produces sizable corrections. The effect appears essential for a realistic description of GRs when using the UCOM. We argue that effects of higher than second order should be negligible. Therefore, the UCOM-SRPA emerges as a promising tool for consistent calculations of collective states in closed-shell nuclei. This is an interesting development, given that SRPA can accommodate more physics than RPA (e.g., fragmentation). Remaining discrepancies due to the missing three-body terms and self-consistency issues of the present SRPA model are pointed out.
dc.description6 pages, incl. 1 figure; Proc. 26th Int. Workshop on Nuclear Theory, June 2007, Rila mountains, Bulgaria
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0709.3167
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0709.3167
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/138397
dc.subjectNuclear Theory
dc.titleGiant Resonances using Correlated Realistic Interactions: The Case for Second RPA
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