Nuclear pairing from chiral pion-nucleon dynamics
Abstract
We use a recently improved version of the chiral nucleon-nucleon potential at next-to-next-to-leading order to calculate the 1S0 pairing gap in isospin-symmetric nuclear matter. The pairing potential consists of the long-range one- and two-pion exchange terms and two short-distance NN-contact couplings. We find that the inclusion of the two-pion exchange at next-to-next-to-leading order reduces substantially the cut-off dependence of the 1S0 pairing gap determined by solving a regularised BCS equation. Our results are close to those obtained with the universal low-momentum nucleon-nucleon potential V low-k or the phenomenological Gogny D1S force.
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