0803 WHY SLEEP MATTERS: THE MACROECONOMIC COSTS OF INSUFFICIENT SLEEP

Abstract

A relativistic form of the Brueckner theory of nuclear matter is applied to an extended meson-exchange model for the NN-interaction which contains explicit 2π-and πρ{variant}-exchange. This model avoids the effective σ-boson which is characteristic of the simplified meson exchange, as e.g. the one-boson-exchange (OBE) potential. It turns out that the relativistic saturation. effects found earlier within the OBE model are confirmed by the extended and more realistic model. In particular it is found that the relativistic effects caused by the explicit 2π-and πρ{variant}-exchange are well simulated by the effective σ-boson of the OBE model. © 1985.