The nuclear self-energy and related quantities in the semiclassical approximation

Abstract

Abstract By using our recently developed semiclassical model for the imaginary part of the optical potential, we calculate here the polarization and correlation contributions to the real part via the dispersion relation. As underlying nonlocal mean-field potential, the semiclassical Hartree-Fock potential evaluated with the Gogny D1 effective interaction or the Perey-Buck potential is employed. With this full self-energy or second-order mass operator we calculate consistently depths, radial dependence and volume integrals of the single-particle potential, rearrangement energies and effective masses, the momentum distribution, mean free paths of a nucleon in a nucleus, and single-particle level densities. We obtain depths which are in excellent agreement with experiment including the Fermi anomaly: the effective mass exhibits a strong bump at the Fermi and the nuclear surface and the single-particle level density at the Fermi energy is enhanced by 65% yielding almost the correct average experimental value.