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Vacuum Nucleon Loops and Naturalness

R. J. Furnstahl, Brian D. Serot, Hua-Bin Tang

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/9611046

Abstract

Phenomenological studies support the applicability of naturalness and naive dimensional analysis to hadronic effective lagrangians for nuclei. However, one-baryon-loop vacuum contributions in renormalizable models give rise to unnatural coefficients, which indicates that the quantum vacuum is not described adequately. The effective lagrangian framework accommodates a more general characterization of vacuum contributions without reference to a Dirac sea of nucleons.

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