Light Front Theory Of Nuclear Matter
arXiv:nucl-th/9811050 · doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(99)90042-4
Abstract
A relativistic light front formulation of nuclear dynamics is applied to infinite nuclear matter. A hadronic meson-baryon Lagrangian, consistent with chiral symmetry, leads to a nuclear eigenvalue problem which is solved, including nucleon-nucleon (NN) correlations, in the one-boson-exchange approximation for the NN potential. The nuclear matter saturation properties are reasonably well reproduced, with a compression modulus of 180 MeV. We find that there are about 0.05 excess pions per nucleon.
6 pages, Revtex, one figure; version resubmitted to Phys. Lett. B