On Introducing Charge-Symmetry-Breaking Terms to Nuclear Energy Density Functionals

Abstract

The Charge-Symmetry-Breaking (CSB) character of the nucleon-nucleon interaction is well established. This work presents two different ways of introducing such effects into a nuclear Energy Density Functional (EDF). CSB terms are either coming from the effective theory expansion or are derived from electromagnetic mixing of $\rho^0$ and $\omega$ mesons. These terms are then introduced to Skyrme and Quark-Meson-Coupling EDFs, respectively.