This is a very short presentation regarding developments in the theory of nuclear many-body problems, as seen and experienced by the author during the past 60 years with particular emphasis on the contributions of Gerry Brown and his research-group.
Much of his work was based on Brueckners formulation of the nuclear many-body problem. It is reviewed briefly together with the Moszkowski-Scott separation method that was an important part of his early work. The core-polarisation and his work related to effective interactions in general are also addressed.
Linear response functions are calculated for symmetric nuclear matter of normal density by time-evolving two-time Greens functions with conserving self-energy insertions, thereby satisfying the energy-sum rule. Nucleons are regarded as moving in a me
an field defined by an effective mass. A two-body effective (or residual) interaction, represented by a gaussian local interaction, is used to find the effect of correlations in a second order as well as a ring approximation. The response function S(e,q) is calculated for 0.2<q<1.2 fm^{-1}. Comparison is made with the nucleons being un-correlated, RPA+HF only.
The Busch-formula relates the energy-spectrum of two point-like particles interacting in a 3-D isotropic Harmonic Oscillator trap to the free scattering phase-shifts of the particles. This formula is used to find an expression for the it shift rm in
the spectrum from the unperturbed (non-interacting) spectrum rather than the spectrum itself. This shift is shown to be approximately $Delta=-delta(k)/pitimes dE$, where $dE$ is the spacing between unperturbed energy levels. The resulting difference from the Busch-formula is typically 1/2% except for the lowest energy-state and small scattering length when it is 3%. It goes to zero when the scattering length $rightarrow pm infty$. The energy shift $Delta$ is familiar from a relatedproblem, that of two particles in a spherical infinite square-well trap of radius $R$ in the limit $Rrightarrow infty$. The approximation ishowever as large as 30% for finite values of $R$, a situation quite different from the Harmonic Oscillator case. The square-well results for $Rrightarrow infty$ led to the use ofin-medium (effective) interactions in nuclear matter calculations that were $propto Delta$ and known as the it phase shift approximation rm.Our results indicate that the validity of this approximation depends on the trapitself, a problem already discussed by DeWitt more than 50 years ago for acubical vs spherical trap.
Efimov physics relates to 3-body systems with large 2-body scattering lengths a and small effective ranges r. For many systems in nature the assumption of a small effective range is not valid. The present report shows binding energies E of three iden
tical bosons calculated with 2-body potentials that are fitted to scattering data and momentum cut-offs (L) by inverse scattering. Results agree with previous works in the case of r<<a. While energies diverge with momentum cut-off L for r=0, they converge for r>0 when L=~10/r. With 1/a=0 the converged energies are given by E(n) =C(n)/r*r with n labeling the energy-branch and calculated values C(0)=0.77, C(1)=.0028. This gives a ratio ~278 thus differing from the value ~515 in the Efimov case. Efimovs angular dependent function is calculated. Good agreement with previous works is obtained when r<< a. With the increased values of effective range the shallow states still appear Efimov-like. For deeper states the angular dependence differs but is independent of the effective range.
A numerical study of the Faddeev equation for bosons is made with two-body interactions at or close to the Unitary limit. Separable interactions are obtained from phase-shifts defined by scattering length and effective range. In EFT-language this wou
ld correspond to NLO. Both ground and Efimov state energies are calculated. For effective ranges $r_0 > 0$ and rank-1 potentials the total energy $E_T$ is found to converge with momentum cut-off $Lambda$ for $Lambda > sim 10/r_0$ . In the Unitary limit ($1/a=r_0= 0$) the energy does however diverge. It is shown (analytically) that in this case $E_T=E_uLambda^2$. Calculations give $E_u=-0.108$ for the ground state and $E_u=-1.times10^{-4}$ for the single Efimov state found. The cut-off divergence is remedied by modifying the off-shell t-matrix by replacing the rank-1 by a rank-2 phase-shift equivalent potential. This is somewhat similar to the counterterm method suggested by Bedaque et al. This investigation is exploratory and does not refer to any specific physical system.
In scattering theory, the unitary limit is defined by an infinite scattering-length and a zero effective range, corresponding to a phase-shift pi/2, independent of energy. This condition is satisfied by a rank-1 separable potential V(k,k)=-v(k)v(k) w
ith v^{2}(k)=(4pi)^{2}(Lambda^{2}-k^{2})^{-1/2}, Lambda being the cut-off in momentum space.Previous calculations using a Pauli-corrected ladder summation to calculate the energy of a zero temperature many body system of spin 1/2 fermions with this interaction gave xi=0.24 (in units of kinetic energy) independent of density and with Lambda---->infinity. This value of xi is appreciably smaller than the experimental and that obtained from other calculations, most notably from Monte Carlo, which in principle would be the most reliable. Our previous work did however also show a strong dependence on effective range r_0 (with r_0=0 at unitarity). With an increase to r_0=1.0 the energy varied from xi~0.38 at k_f=0.6 1/fm to ~0.45 at k_f=1.8 1/fm which is somewhat closer to the Monte-Carlo results. These previous calculations are here extended by including the effect of the previously neglected mean-field propagation, the dispersion correction. This is repulsive and found to increase drastically with decreasing effective range. It is large enough to suggest a revised value of xi~0.4 <--> ~0.5 independent of r_0. Off-shell effects are also investigated by introducing a rank-2 (phase-shift equivalent) separable potential. Effects of 10% or more in energy could be demonstrated for r_0>0. It is pointed out that a computational cut-off in momentum-space brings in another scale in the in otherwise scale-less unitary problem.
A microscopic theory of nuclei based on a free scattering NN-potential is meaningful only if this potential fits on-shell scattering data.This is a necessary but not sufficient condition for the theory to be successful.It has been demonstrated repeat
edly in the past that 2-body off-shell adjustments or many-body forces are necessary.It has been shown however, using Eff. Field Theory and formal scattering theory, that off-shell and many-body effects can not be separated.This equivalence theorem allows us to concentrate on the off-shell effects.Examples of on-shell equivalent potentials Paris, Bonn etc but here separable potentials are calculated by inverse scattering from NN-scattering and Deuteron data, Earlier calculations showed these S-state potentials to agree with Bonn-B results in Brueckner nuclear matter calculations. They are here also used to compute the Triton binding energy and the n-D scattering length.The results are found to lie on the Phillips line defined in early calculations but like these miss the experimental point on this line and overbind the Triton but is reached by modifying the off-shell properties adding a short-range repulsion without affecting fits to the experimental low-energy phase-shifts.The off-shell induced correlations result in a repulsive component in the Triton effective interactions.In nuclear matter the same effect is referred to as the dispersion correction, which is a main contributor to nuclear saturation.In finite nucleus Brueckner-HF calculations these same correlations give an important contribution to the selfconsistent (reaarangement term), without which the finite nucleus would collapse.The main purpose of the present work is to illustrate that NN-correlations are as important in the Triton as they are in nuclear matter or other finite nuclei.
