Critical Survey of Isoscalar and Isovector Contributions to the Spin Orbit Potential in Relativistic Mean Field Theory

2006/05/03 by Bhagwat, A., Wyss, R., Satula, W. +2
#FOS: Physical sciences #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.nucl-th/0605009

Abstract

The spin-orbit (SO) interaction, emerging naturally from the Relativistic Mean Field (RMF) theory is examined critically in the light of the recently measured excitation energy differences between the terminating states built on two different configurations for nuclei belonging to the lower pf shell. The calculations are carried out using the cranked RMF framework. To further probe the iso-vector dependence of the spin-orbit potential, the energy spacing between the g_7/2 and h_11/2 states in the Sb-chain is compared to experiment. It is found that the calculation at the quantitative level deviates strongly from the experiment. In particular the balance of the iso-scalar and iso-vector strengths of the effective one body SO potential indicates that additional terms like tensor couplings may be needed to account for the experimental data.

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