Litvinova E, Wibowo H. Finite-Temperature Relativistic Nuclear Field Theory: An Application to the Dipole Response.
Phys Rev Lett 2018;
121:082501. [PMID:
30192567 DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.121.082501]
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Abstract
Nuclear response theory beyond the one-loop approximation is formulated for the case of finite temperature. For this purpose, the time blocking approximation to the time-dependent part of the in-medium nucleon-nucleon interaction amplitude is adopted for the thermal (imaginary-time) Green's function formalism. We found that introducing a soft blocking, instead of a sharp blocking at zero temperature, brings the Bethe-Salpeter equation to a single-frequency variable equation also at finite temperatures. The method is implemented self-consistently in the framework of quantum hadrodynamics and designed to connect the high-energy scale of heavy mesons and the low-energy domain of nuclear medium polarization effects in a parameter-free way. In this framework, we investigate the temperature dependence of dipole spectra in the even-even nuclei ^{48}Ca and ^{100,120,132}Sn with a special focus on the giant dipole resonance's width problem and on the low-energy dipole strength distribution.
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