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

The free parameter k F 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 16 O with this approach reproduce very closely our earlier results with a fixed estimated value for k F .