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View SchemaCovariant Effective Field Theory for Nuclear Structure and Currents
| Authors | Brian D. Serot |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | nucl-th/0405058 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/0405058 |
Abstract
Recent progress in Lorentz-covariant quantum field theories of the nuclear many-body problem (quantum hadrodynamics or QHD) is discussed. The effective field theory studied here contains nucleons, pions, isoscalar scalar (\sigma) and vector (\omega) fields, and isovector vector (\rho) fields. The theory exhibits a nonlinear realization of spontaneously broken SU(2) \times SU(2) chiral symmetry and has three desirable features: it uses the same degrees of freedom to describe the nuclear currents and the strong-interaction dynamics, it satisfies the symmetries of the underlying theory of QCD, and its parameters can be calibrated using strong-interaction phenomena, like hadron scattering or the empirical properties of finite nuclei. Moreover, it has recently been verified that for normal nuclear systems, it is possible to expand the effective lagrangian systematically in powers of the meson fields (and their derivatives) and to truncate the expansion reliably after the first few orders. Using a mean-field version of the energy functional, accurate quantitative results are obtained for the bulk and single-particle properties of medium- and heavy-mass nuclei. The importance of modern perspectives in effective field theory and density functional theory for understanding these successes of QHD is emphasized. The inclusion of hadronic electromagnetic structure and of nonanalytic terms in the energy functional is also considered briefly. Weak-interaction currents are also studied in this QHD framework. Expressions for the axial-vector current, evaluated through the first few orders in the field expansion, satisfy both PCAC and the Goldberger--Treiman relation. Moreover, the corresponding vector and axial-vector charges satisfy the familiar chiral charge algebra to all orders in the pion field.
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