Exact treatment of the Pauli exclusion operator in the nuclear matter Bethe-Goldstone equation

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Abstract
We solve the Bethe-Goldstone equation in nuclear matter for the scattering of a nucleon of a few hundred MeV. The angular momentum coupling caused by the nonspherical part of the Pauli blocking operator is treated exactly. It is found that standard approximation of angle averaging the Pauli operator is quite accurate for bulk properties of the reaction matrix even at energies as high as 300 MeV. Our result justifies one of the common approximations previously untested in the microscopic calculation of the optical model potential.