RELATIVISTIC CORRECTIONS TO THE NUCLEAR AND NEUTRON MATTER ENERGY IN THE LOCV FRAMEWORK

Abstract

We calculate the two-body relativistic boost interaction corrections as well as relativistic one-body and two-body kinetic energy corrections in cluster expansion of energy with AV18 and the new charge dependent Reid93 potentials within the lowest order constrained variational (LOCV) method. The equation of state of symmetric nuclear matter and pure neutron matter are calculated using the non-relativistic (H NR ), non-relativistic plus boost interaction corrections [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] plus kinetic energy corrections [Formula: see text] Hamiltonians. The relativistic boost interaction effects reduce the binding energies of symmetric nuclear matter for the AV18 interaction by ~3 MeV .