Vacuum nucleon loops and naturalness

Oct, 1996
15 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.A 618 (1997) 446-454
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Report number:
  • IU-NTC-96-12,
  • NUC-MINN-96-19-T

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Abstract:
Phenomenological studies support the applicability of naturalness and naive dimensional analysis to hadronic effective lagrangians for nuclei. However, one-baryon-loop vacuum contributions in renormalizable models give rise to unnatural coefficients, which indicates that the quantum vacuum is not described adequately. The effective lagrangian framework accommodates a more general characterization of vacuum contributions without reference to a Dirac sea of nucleons.
  • 21.65.+f
  • 12.38.Lg
  • 24.85+p
  • nuclear matter
  • nuclear properties
  • many-body problem
  • Hartree approximation: relativistic
  • effective Lagrangian: hadronic
  • renormalization
  • vacuum state