Low-density homogeneous symmetric nuclear matter: disclosing dinucleons in coexisting phases

Abstract

The effect of in-medium dinucleon bound states on self-consistent single-particle fields in Brueckner, Bethe and Goldstone theory is investigated in symmetric nuclear matter at zero temperature. To this end, dinucleon bound state occurences in the ${}^1{S}_0$ and ${}^{3}S{D}_1$ channels are explicitly accounted for -within the continuous choice for the auxiliary fields- while imposing self-consistency in Brueckner-Hartree-Fock approximation calculations. Searches are carried out at Fermi momenta in the range $0<k_F\le 1.75$~fm${}^{-1}$, using the Argonne $v_{18}$ bare nucleon-nucleon potential without resorting to the effective mass approximation. As a result, two distinct solutions meeting the self-consistency requirement are found with overlapping domains in the interval $0.130{\text{fm}}^{-1}\le k_F\le 0.285{\text{fm}}^{-1}$, corresponding to mass densities between $10^{11.4}$ and $10^{12.4}$ g cm${}^{-3}$. Effective masses as high as three times the nucleon mass are found in the coexistence domain. The emergence of superfluidity in relationship with BCS pairing gap solutions is discussed.

arXiv comment16 pages, 18 figures, accepted for publication in EPJA

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