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Nuclear matter properties in the relativistic mean field model with sigma-omega coupling

Nuclear Theory 2009-11-06 v1

Abstract

The possibility of extending the linear sigma-omega model by introducing a sigma-omega coupling phenomenologically is explored. It is shown that, in contrast to the usual Walecka model, not only the effective nucleon mass M* but also the effective sigma meson mass m*_sigma and the effective omega meson mass m*_omega are nucleon density dependent. When the model parameters are fitted to the nuclear saturation point (the nuclear radius constant r_0=1.14fm and volume energy a_1=16.0MeV) as well as to the effective nucleon mass M*=0.85M, the model yields m*_sigma=1.09m_sigma and m*_omega=0.90m_omega at the saturation point, and the nuclear incompressibility K_0=501MeV. The lowest value of K_0 given by this model by adjusting the model parameters is around 227MeV.

Cite

@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0011025,
  title  = {Nuclear matter properties in the relativistic mean field model with sigma-omega coupling},
  author = {K. C. Chung and C. S. Wang and A. J. Santiago and J. W. Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0011025},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

5 pages and 3 figures