Relativistic Study of Medium Polarization Effects on Superfluidity in Nuclear Matter

Abstract

Effects of the Fermi-sea polarization on the superfluidity in nuclear matter are studied in a framework of quantum hadrodynamics. The particle-hole polarization due to $σ$ and $ω$ mesons enhances the peak value of the pairing gap contrary to the previous non-relativistic studies.

7 pages, 4 eps figures included, uses epsfig.sty, talk presented by M.M. at the APCTP Workshop on Astro-Hadron Physics; in Honor of Mannque Rho's 60th Birthday, Properties of Hadrons in Matter (25-31, Oct., 1997, Seoul, Korea), to be published by World Scientific