Two-loop Corrections for Nuclear Matter in a Covariant Effective Field Theory

dc.creatorHu, Ying
dc.creatorMcIntire, Jeff
dc.creatorSerot, Brian D.
dc.date2007-06-11
dc.date2007-08-23
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:36:05Z
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dc.descriptionAlthough one-loop calculations provide a realistic description of bulk and single-particle nuclear properties, it is necessary to examine loop corrections to develop a systematic finite-density power-counting scheme for the nuclear many-body problem when loops are included. Moreover, it is imperative to study exchange and correlation corrections systematically to make reliable predictions for other nuclear observables. One must also verify that the natural sizes of the one-loop parameters are not destroyed by explicit inclusion of many-body corrections. The loop expansion is applied to a chiral effective hadronic lagrangian; with the techniques of Infrared Regularization, it is possible to separate out the short-range contributions and to write them as local products of fields that are already present in our lagrangian. (The appropriate field variables must be re-defined at each order in loops.) The corresponding parameters implicitly include short-range effects to all orders in the interaction, so these effects need not be calculated explicitly. The remaining (long-range) contributions that must be calculated are nonlocal and resemble those in conventional nuclear-structure calculations. Calculations at the two-loop level are carried out to illustrate these techniques at finite densities and to verify that the coupling parameters remain natural when fitted to the empirical properties of equilibrium nuclear matter.
dc.description24 pages, 4 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0706.1547
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0706.1547
dc.identifierNucl.Phys.A794:187-209,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2007.08.005
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/179937
dc.subjectNuclear Theory
dc.titleTwo-loop Corrections for Nuclear Matter in a Covariant Effective Field Theory
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