Relation between the separable and one-boson-exchange potential for the covariant Bethe-Salpeter equation

We investigate the relation between the rank I separable potential for the covariant Bethe-Salpeter equation and the one-boson-exchange potential. After several trials of the parameter choices, it turns out that it is not always possible to reproduce the phase-shifts calculated from a single term of the one-boson-exchange potential especially of the $\sigma$-exchange term, separately by the rank I separable potential. Instead, it is shown that the separable potential is useful to parameterize the total nucleon-nucleon interaction.Comment: 10 pages, 8 figures, to appear in J.Phys.

Description of nuclear systems within the relativistic Hartree-Fock method with zero range self-interactions of the scalar field

An exact method is suggested to treat the nonlinear self-interactions (NLSI) in the relativistic Hartree-Fock (RHF) approach for nuclear systems. We consider here the NLSI constructed from the relativistic scalar nucleon densities and including products of six and eight fermion fields. This type of NLSI corresponds to the zero range limit of the standard cubic and quartic self-interactions of the scalar field. The method to treat the NLSI uses the Fierz transformation, which enables one to express the exchange (Fock) components in terms of the direct (Hartree) ones. The method is applied to nuclear matter and finite nuclei. It is shown that, in the RHF formalism, the NLSI, which are explicitly isovector-independent, generate scalar, vector and tensor nucleon self-energies strongly density-dependent. This strong isovector structure of the self-energies is due to the exchange terms of the RHF method. Calculations are carried out with a parametrization containing five free parameters. The model allows a description of both types of systems compatible with experimental data.Comment: 23 pages, 14 figures (v2: major quantitative changes

Spin-Orbit Splitting in Non-Relativistic and Relativistic Self-Consistent Models

The splitting of single-particle energies between spin-orbit partners in nuclei is examined in the framework of different self-consistent approachs, non-relativistic as well as relativistic. Analytical expressions of spin-orbit potentials are given for various cases. Proton spin-orbit splittings are calculated along some isotopic chains (O, Ca, Sn) and they are compared with existing data. It is found that the isotopic dependence of the relativistic mean field predictions is similar to that of some Skyrme forces while the relativistic Hartree-Fock approach leads to a very different dependence due to the strong non-locality.Comment: 12 pages, RevTeX, 4 new figs.in .zip format, unchanged conclusions, Phys. ReV.

Pseudospin symmetry in the Dirac phenomenology

In the phenomenological relativistic framework of the Dirac equation for spherical nuclei, we use different kinds of single-particle central potentials ( ΣS + Σ0 to investigate certain aspects of the spin and pseudospin (PS) symmetries. Neither the splitting of PS doublets (PSDs) nor the similarity of the radial parts of the small components (F/r of the corresponding Dirac spinors have been found related with the magnitude of ΣS + Σ0 , in the sense predicted by several authors in the last decade. This conclusion is shown to be valid, in particular, for a potential of Coulomb type. We give a simple explanation for the strong correlation established in the relativistic calculations between the similarity of the radial parts of the big (small) components of the Dirac spinors of two spin (pseudospin) partners and the number of their nodes. The direct effects of the so-called PS symmetry-breaking term (and its singularity point) on the F functions of the PSDs are also analysed

Origin of the pseudospin symmetry in the relativistic formalism

The grounds on which the nuclear pseudospin symmetry (PSS) is supposed to be based are analysed within the relativistic mean-field framework. A connection between the mechanisms responsible for the spin-orbit and pseudospin-orbit splittings is shown. The nature of the PSS is investigated through an extended Dirac equation which allows a generalization of the PSS breaking term. It is shown that the PSS breaking in real nuclei can be explained as a result of a non-perturbative transformation from non-physical solutions of the Dirac equation, which satisfy exactly the PSS, to the physical ones. The PSS breaking term produces important, though qualitatively similar, effects on both states of a pseudospin-orbit doublet. The similarity of these effects increases with the number of nodes of the small component of the Dirac spinor of these states

Pseudospin symmetry as an accidental symmetry in the relativistic framework

We analyse the arguments used in the relativistic context to base the quasi-degeneracy of pseudospin doublets (PSDs) observed in atomic nuclei on the smallness of the single-particle central potential (Σ S + Σ0), discussing, especially, the implications of the results obtained in the limit (Σ S + Σ0 = 0. We study also the transition from a relativistic model, where Σ S + Σ0 is a harmonic-oscillator potential and exhibits degenerate PSDs, to a more realistic one with broken pseudospin symmetry. We examine, in particular, the effect of the corresponding pseudospin symmetry-breaking term on the Dirac spinors of the PSDs. An extension of the Nilsson model to the relativistic case is also considered

Evolution of nuclear shells with the Skyrme density dependent interaction

We present the evolution of the shell structure of nuclei in Hartree-Fock calculations using Skyrme's density-dependent effective nucleon-nucleon interaction. The role of the tensor part of the Skyrme interaction to the Hartree-Fock spin-orbit splitting in spherical spin unsaturated nuclei is reanalyzed. The contribution of a finite range tensor force to the spin-orbit splitting in closed shell nuclei is calculated. It is found that the exact matrix elements of a Gaussian and of a one-pion exchange tensor potential could be written as a product Skyrme's short range expression times a suppression factor which is almost constant for closed shell nuclei with mass number A >= 48. The suppression factor is similar to 0.15 for the one-pion exchange potential

The spin and pseudospin symmetries in the relativistic formalism: Similarities and differences

The effects of the symmetry breaking terms, spin-orbit potential (SOP) and pseudospin-orbit potential (PSOP), in the spin and pseudospin symmetries, respectively, are studied in a comparative way. The analytical properties of the small component F of the Dirac spinor for pseudospin doublets (PSDs) are investigated around the singularity point of the PSOP. We show that the PSOP and the pseudocentrifugal barrier must be appropriately related to each other to describe adequately the wave functions in the nuclear surface, whereas it is not the case for the centrifugal barrier and the SOP. We also determine a modified PSOP smaller than the PSOP when the parameter ¯, appearing in it, is left to vary in the domain of real numbers. The inclusion of this modified PSOP allows us to define a continuous way that connects the two states of a PSD as ¯ varies continuously between the physical (integer) values of ¯ corresponding to these states. Our results indicate that whereas the SOP can be considered as a small spin symmetry breaking term that allows a simple explanation of the spin symmetry, the consideration of the PSOP as the pseudospin symmetry breaking term presents serious difficulties. Thus, we propose a new strategy to explain, in a simple way, the quasi-degeneracy of the PSDs