Relativistic Brueckner—Hartree—Fock Theory for Finite Nuclei**Supported by the National Basic Research Program of China No 2013CB834400, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants Nos 11175002, 11335002, 11405090, 11375015 and 11621131001, the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education under Grant No 20110001110087, the DFG cluster of excellence “Origin and Structure of the Universe” (www.universe-cluster.de), the CPSC

Abstract

Starting with a bare nucleon-nucleon interaction, for the first time the full relativistic Brueckner—Hartree—Fock equations are solved for finite nuclei in a Dirac—Woods—Saxon basis. No free parameters are introduced to calculate the ground-state properties of finite nuclei. The nucleus 16O is investigated as an example. The resulting ground-state properties, such as binding energy and charge radius, are considerably improved as compared with the non-relativistic Brueckner—Hartree—Fock results and much closer to the experimental data. This opens the door for ab initio covariant investigations of heavy nuclei.