Wirth, Roland (2018)
Ab-Initio Approach to Hypernuclei.
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Ph.D. Thesis, Primary publication
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Item Type: | Ph.D. Thesis | ||||
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Type of entry: | Primary publication | ||||
Title: | Ab-Initio Approach to Hypernuclei | ||||
Language: | English | ||||
Referees: | Roth, Prof. Dr. Robert ; Braun, Prof. Dr. Jens | ||||
Date: | 2018 | ||||
Place of Publication: | Darmstadt | ||||
Date of oral examination: | 14 February 2018 | ||||
Abstract: | Studying systems with strangeness provides a unique opportunity to deepen our understanding of the strong interaction. The purpose of this work is the development of an ab initio framework that is suitable for addressing finite (single-Λ) hypernuclei. Such a framework connects models of the hyperon-nucleon (YN) interaction, which are ill constrained due to lack of scattering data, to observables of p-shell hypernuclei. Thus, it not only enables predictions of quantities that have not been measured, but can also be used to improve the interaction model itself. The many-body method we employ here is the Importance-Truncated No-Core Shell Model (IT-NCSM), which has been successfully used in light nuclei. We implement an extended IT-NCSM in which particles of differing rest mass can be treated without approximation. Also, the coupled-channel problem arising from the low mass difference between the Λ and Σ hyperons is fully included. A crucial part of the framework is the Similarity Renormalization Group (SRG) transformation of the Hamiltonian, which accelerates model-space convergence of the IT-NCSM so that ground-state and hyperon-separation energies can be extracted reliably. As a tradeoff, the SRG transformation induces many-body terms beyond those present in the initial Hamiltonian. We show that it is necessary to include the induced hyperon-nucleon-nucleon (YNN) terms in order to get precise values for energy observables. We present in detail the procedure with which the induced terms can be calculated, and discuss technical issues of its practical implementation. With a Hamiltonian built from chiral effective field theory interactions including nucleon-nucleon, three-nucleon, and YN interactions, we survey absolute energies and spectra of light hypernuclei; first with a bare YN interaction, then with an evolved interaction along with the induced three-body terms. We find remarkable agreement with experimental data, despite using a leading-order hyperon-nucleon interaction. We also study binding energies and neutron-separation energies along the neutron-rich helium and lithium isotopic chains and their daughter hyperisotopes. Contrary to the naive expectation, we find that the neutron drip line for the hyperisotopes is the same as for their nucleonic parents. Finally, we turn to double-Λ hypernuclei and investigate core-polarization effects in 6ΛΛHe, concluding that the hyperon-hyperon interaction has to be very weak. We also consider medium-mass hypernuclei with closed-shell parents, presenting applications of the Hartree-Fock (HF) method, second-order many-body perturbation theory (MBPT), and Brueckner-Bethe-Goldstone theory to these systems, paving the way for a full ab initio treatment. We find that, for closed-shell nuclei, the Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (BHF) approximation is less suitable for SRG-evolved interactions than perturbative approaches. Also, the correlations included in BHF and second-order MBPT have only a small effect on hyperon-separation energies, which are almost completely determined by the HF ground-state energies. The induced YNN terms are generated by integrating out the Σ hyperons from the low-lying eigenstates of the Hamiltonian via suppressing the Λ-Σ conversion terms of the YN interaction. Without the induced terms, the separation energies do not saturate with particle number; only their inclusion make the calculation results follow the experimental trend. From these findings, we propose a solution to the hyperon puzzle in neutron-star physics for approaches employing a scheme with only Λ hyperons by showing that the strong repulsive ΛNN interaction required to solve the puzzle is generated naturally by integrating out Σ hyperons. |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-72767 | ||||
Classification DDC: | 500 Science and mathematics > 530 Physics | ||||
Divisions: | 05 Department of Physics > Institute of Nuclear Physics > Theoretische Kernphysik > Kern- und Hadronenphysik | ||||
Date Deposited: | 11 Apr 2018 10:00 | ||||
Last Modified: | 11 Apr 2018 10:00 | ||||
URI: | https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/7276 | ||||
PPN: | 428539033 | ||||
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