Coulombic effect and renormalization in nuclear pairing

TL;DR

This paper examines how the Coulomb force influences nuclear pairing properties and introduces a renormalization scheme to effectively account for this effect across various nuclei.

Contribution

It proposes a simple reduction factor for the proton pairing channel that accurately incorporates Coulomb effects in nuclear calculations.

Findings

Coulomb force reduces proton pair energy by about 25%.

A single reduction factor γ_p=0.90 effectively models Coulomb effects.

The scheme works across a wide range of nuclei, including near shell closures.

Abstract

We investigate effects of the Coulomb force on the nuclear pairing properties by performing the Gogny Hartree-Fock-Bogolyubov calculations for the $N=20$, $28$, $50$, $82$ and $126$ nuclei. The Coulomb force reduces the proton pair energy and the even-odd mass difference by about 25%, except for nuclei at and around the proton shell or subshell closure. We then propose a renormalization scheme via a reduction factor $\gamma_p$ for the proton pairing channel. It is found that a single value of $\gamma_p(=0.90)$ well takes account of the Coulombic effect, for nuclei covering wide range of the mass number and the neutron excess including the nuclei around the shell or subshell closure.