Symmetry energy of cold nucleonic matter within a relativistic mean field model encapsulating effects of high momentum nucleons induced by short-range correlations

Abstract

Significant progress has been made recently in constraining the isospin-dependent parameters characterizing the SRC (short-range correlation)-modified single-nucleon momentum distribution in neutron-rich nucleonic matter using both experimental data and microscopic model calculations. Using the constrained single-nucleon momentum distribution in a nonlinear relativistic mean field (RMF) model, we study the equation of state (EOS) of asymmetric nucleonic matter (ANM), especially the density dependence of nuclear symmetry energy $E_{\mathrm{sym}}(\rho )$. Firstly, as a test of the model, the average nucleon kinetic energy extracted recently from electron-nucleus scattering experiments using a neutron-proton dominance model is well reproduced by the RMF model incorporating effects of the SRC-induced high momentum nucleons, while it is significantly under predicted by the RMF model using a step function for the single-nucleon momentum distribution as in free Fermi gas (FFG) models. Secondly, the kinetic symmetry energy of quasi-nucleons is found to be $E_{\mathrm{sym}}^{\mathrm{kin}}({\rho }_0)=-16.94\pm 13.66\mathrm{MeV}$ which is dramatically different from the prediction of $E_{\mathrm{sym}}^{\mathrm{kin}}({\rho }_0)\approx 12.5$ MeV by FFG models at nuclear matter saturation density ${\rho }_0=0.16{\mathrm{fm}}^{-3}$. Thirdly, comparing the RMF calculations with and without the high momentum nucleons using two sets of model parameters both reproducing identically all empirically constraints on the EOS of symmetric nuclear matter (SNM) and the symmetry energy of ANM at ${\rho }_0$, the SRC-modified single-nucleon momentum distribution is found to make the $E_{\mathrm{sym}}(\rho )$ more concave around ${\rho }_0$ by softening it significantly at both sub-saturation and supra-saturation densities, leading to an isospin-dependent incompressibility of ANM in better agreement with existing experimental data.

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