Improved treatment of Pauli operator in calculation of saturation diagrams in 16O

Abstract

The free parameter kF for Fermi momentum appearing in the Kerman–Pal procedure for renormalizing the nucleon–nucleon interaction to second order in nuclei has been eliminated by making use self-consistently of Wong's one-point approximation. Calculations of the saturation diagrams in 16O with this approach reproduce very closely our earlier results with a fixed estimated value for kF.