ON THE TFD TREATMENT OF COLLECTIVE VIBRATIONS IN HOT NUCLEI

Abstract

The approach in a theory of collective excitations in hot nuclei exploring the formalism of thermo field dynamics and the model Hamiltonian consisting of a mean field, the BCS paring interaction, and long-range particle–hole effective forces is reexamined. In contrast with earlier studies, it is found that a wave function of a thermal phonon is depended not only on the Fermi–Dirac thermal occupation numbers of the Bogoliubov quasiparticles consisting the phonon but also on the Bose thermal occupation numbers of the phonon. This strongly affects a thermal phonon coupling due to the renormalization of a phonon–phonon interaction and enlarging the number of thermal two-phonon configurations coupled with one-phonon ones. Moreover, it is shown that the formulation of the double tilde conjugation rule for fermions proposed by I. Ojima is more appropriate in the context of the present study than the original one by H. Umezawa and co-workers.