Towards a power counting in nuclear energy-density-functional theories through a perturbative analysis

Abstract

We illustrate a step towards the construction of a power counting in energy-density-functional (EDF) theories, by analyzing the equations of state (EOSs) of both symmetric and neutron matter. Within the adopted strategy, next-to-leading order (NLO) EOSs are introduced which contain renormalized first-order-type terms and an explicit second-order finite part. Employing as a guide the asymptotic behavior of the introduced renormalized parameters, we focus our analysis on two aspects: (i) With a minimum number of counterterms introduced at NLO, we show that each energy contribution entering in the EOS has a regular evolution with respect to the momentum cutoff (introduced in the adopted regularization procedure) and is found to converge to a cutoff-independent curve. The convergence features of each term are related to its Fermi-momentum dependence. (ii) We find that the asymptotic evolution of the second-order finite-part coefficients is a strong indication of a perturbative behavior, which in turns confirms that the adopted strategy is coherent with a possible underlying power counting in the chosen Skyrme-inspired EDF framework.

7 pages, 4 figures

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