MOMENTUM DEPENDENCE OF SINGLE-PARTICLE POTENTIAL IN DIRAC-BRUECKNER APPROACH

The momentum dependence of the empirical scalar and vector potentials needed for describing relativistic heavy-ion collisions at 1 GeV/nucle on is compared with that derived from self-consistent Dirac-Brueckner calculations using the Bonn-A potential. Our calculated scalar and vec tor potentials exhibit a weak momentum dependence and their magnitudes decrease with nucleon momentum, in close similarity with the momentum dependence required by the empirical potentials. The effects of expli cit momentum dependence on the properties of equilibrium nuclear matte r are found to be small. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.