Isospin-Dependence of Nucleon Potential and Effective Mass in Relativistic Approach
- Received Date: 2006-07-10
- Accepted Date: 1900-01-01
- Available Online: 2006-12-05
Abstract: The isospin-dependence of nucleon optical potentials and the nucleon effective mass is studied in the framework of the Dirac Brueckner Hartree-Fock (DBHF) approach. A new decomposition of the Dirac structure of the nuclear self-energy in the DBHF is extended to asymmetric nuclear matter calculations. The real part of the nucleon self-energy in asymmetric nuclear matter is calculated with the G-matrix in the Hartree-Fock approach, while the imaginary part is obtained from the polarization diagram. The nucleon vector effective mass is derived from the Schroedinger equivalent potentials. It is found that the neutron vector effective mass is larger than that of proton in the neutron-rich nuclear matter once the energy dependence of the nucleon potentials is considered.