English

Non-locality in the nucleon-nucleon interaction and nuclear matter saturation

Nuclear Theory 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

We study the possible relationship between the saturation properties of nuclear matter and the inclusion of non-locality in the nucleon-nucleon interaction. To this purpose we compute the saturation curve of nuclear matter within the Bethe-Brueckner-Goldstone theory using a recently proposed realistic non-local potential, and compare it with the corresponding curves obtained with a purely local realistic interaction (Argonne v18_{18}) and the most recent version of the one-boson exchange potential (CD Bonn). We find that the inclusion of non-locality in the two-nucleon bare interaction strongly affects saturation, but it is unable to provide a consistent description of few-body nuclear systems and nuclear matter.

Cite

@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0507009,
  title  = {Non-locality in the nucleon-nucleon interaction and nuclear matter saturation},
  author = {M. Baldo and C. Maieron},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0507009},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

9 pages, 8 figures; v2: introduction extended, references added, discussion of fig.8 reformulated; to be published in Phys. Rev. C