Nuclear Dipole Response in the Finite-Temperature Relativistic Time Blocking Approximation

Abstract

The radiative neutron capture reaction rates of the r-process nucleosynthesis are immensely affected by the microscopic structure of the low-energy spectra of compound nuclei. The relativistic (quasiparticle) time blocking approximation (R(Q)TBA) has successfully provided a good description of the low-energy strength, in particular, the strength associated with pygmy dipole resonance, describing transitions from and to the nuclear ground state. The finite-temperature generalization of this method is designed for thermally excited compound nuclei and has the potential to enrich the fine structure of the dipole strength, especially in the low-energy region. The finite-temperature RTBA equations are derived using the Matsubara Green's function formalism. We show that with the help of a temperature-dependent projection operator on the subspace of the imaginary time it is possible to reduce the Bethe-Salpeter equation for the nuclear response function to a single frequency variable equation also at finite temperatures. The approach is implemented self-consistently in the framework of quantum hadrodynamics and keeps the ability of connecting the high-energy scale of heavy mesons and the low-energy domain of nuclear medium polarization effects in a parameter-free way. The presented calculations of the dipole response within a self-consistent relativistic framework reveal that, although the Landau damping plays the leading role in the temperature evolution of the strength distribution, (i) at moderate temperatures the PVC effects remain almost as strong as at $T=0$ and (ii) at high temperatures they are tremendously reinforced because of the formation of the new collective low-energy modes. In the dipole channel, the latter effect is responsible for the "disappearance" of the high-frequency GDR or, in other words, brings the GDR to the low-energy domain.

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