The Thermal Properties of Asymmetric Nuclear Matter within the Extended Brueckner–Hartree–Fock Approach

Abstract

The single-particle potentials and other properties at absolute zero temperature in isospin asymmetric nuclear matter are investigated in the frame of an extended Brueckner theory. Also thermal quantities are calculated in asymmetric nuclear matter using CD-Bonn potential and the Urbana three-body forces (3BF). Also, the effects of the hole–hole contributions are investigated within the self-consistent Greens function approach. The inclusion of 3BF or the hole–hole contributions improves the predicted saturation property of symmetric nuclear matter within the Brueckner–Hartree–Fock approach and it leads to a significant stiffening of the density dependence of symmetry energy at high densities but the exact saturation point is not reproduced. This is of great importance in astrophysical calculation. A phenomenological term simulating the three-body interaction is introduced to assure the empirical saturation property. The hot properties of asymmetric nuclear matter such as the internal energy and the press...