A relativistic separable potential to describe pairing in nuclear matter Original Research Article

Using the Dirac–Hartree–Fock–Bogoliubov approximation to study nuclear pairing, we have found the short-range correlations of the Dirac View the MathML source pairing fields to be essentially identical to those of the two-nucleon virtual state at all values of the baryon density. We make use of this fact to develop a relativistic separable potential that correctly describes the pairing fields.