Relativistic Brueckner—Hartree—Fock Theory for Finite Nuclei

Abstract

Starting with a bare nucleon-nucleon interaction, for the first time the full\nrelativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock equations are solved for finite nuclei in a\nDirac-Woods-Saxon basis. No free parameters are introduced to calculate the\nground-state properties of finite nuclei. The nucleus $^{16}$O is investigated\nas an example. The resulting ground-state properties, such as binding energy\nand charge radius, are considerably improved as compared with the\nnon-relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock results and much closer to the\nexperimental data. This opens the door for \\emph{ab initio} covariant\ninvestigations of heavy nuclei.\n