Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
8195845 Physics Letters B 2007 5 Pages PDF
Abstract
A previously introduced relativistic energy density functional, successfully applied to ordinary nuclei, is extended to hypernuclei. The density-dependent mean field and the spin-orbit potential are consistently calculated for a Λ hyperon in the nucleus using the SU(3) extension of in-medium chiral perturbation theory. The leading long range ΛN interaction arises from kaon-exchange and 2π-exchange with Σ hyperon in the intermediate state. Scalar and vector mean fields reflecting in-medium changes of the quark condensates are constrained by QCD sum rules. The model, applied to oxygen as a test case, describes spectroscopic data in good agreement with experiment. In particular, the smallness of the Λ spin-orbit interaction finds a natural explanation in terms of an almost complete cancellation between scalar-vector background contributions and long-range terms generated by two-pion exchange.
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