Light Front Treatment of Nuclei: Formalism and Simple Applications
Abstract
A relativistic light front treatment of nuclei is developed by performing light front quantization for a chiral Lagrangian. The energy momentum tensor and the appropriate Hamiltonian are obtained. Three illustrations of the formalism are made. (1) Pion-nucleon scattering at tree level is shown to reproduce soft pion theorems. (2) The one boson exchange treatment of nucleon-nucleon scattering is developed and shown (by comparison with previous results of the equal time formulation) to lead to a reasonable description of nucleon-nucleon phase shifts. (3) The mean field approximation is applied to infinite nuclear matter, and the plus momentum distributions of that system are studied. The mesons are found to carry a significant fraction of the plus momentum, but are inaccessible to experiments.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9706028,
title = {Light Front Treatment of Nuclei: Formalism and Simple Applications},
author = {Gerald A. Miller},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9706028},
year = {2008}
}
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48 pages, ReVTex, 3 .eps files included, submitted to Phys. Rev. C