Constraining hypernuclear density functional with $\Lambda$-hypernuclei and compact stars
Abstract
We present a simultaneous calculation of heavy single- hypernuclei and compact stars containing hypernuclear core within a relativistic density functional theory based on a Lagrangian which includes the hyperon octet and lightest isoscalar-isovector mesons which couple to baryons with density-dependent couplings. The corresponding density functional allows for SU(6) symmetry breaking and mixing in the isoscalar sector, whereby the departures in the - and - couplings away from their values implied by the SU(3) symmetric model are used to adjust the theory to the laboratory and astronomical data. We fix - coupling using the data on the single- hypernuclei and derive an upper bound on the - from the requirement that the lower bound on the maximum mass of a compact star is .
Cite
@article{arxiv.1406.0744,
title = {Constraining hypernuclear density functional with $\Lambda$-hypernuclei and compact stars},
author = {E. N. E. van Dalen and Giuseppe Colucci and Armen Sedrakian},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.0744},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
10 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Phys. Lett. B, v2: minor editorial corrections