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Phys. Rev. C 59, R2998 - R3001 (1999)

Rotational invariance in nuclear light-front mean field theory

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P. G. Blunden
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2

M. Burkardt
Department of Physics, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003-0001

G. A. Miller
Department of Physics, Box 351560, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1560

Rapid Communication Received 20 January 1999

A light-front treatment for spherical nuclei is developed from a relativistic effective Lagrangian and employing the mean field approximation. Minimizing the nuclear minus momentum subject to the constraint that, in the rest frame, the expectation values of the plus and minus momenta are the same leads to a formalism in which rotational invariance is recovered.


©1999 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevC.59.R2998
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.59.R2998
PACS: 25.30.Mr, 21.60.Cs, 24.10.Jv

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