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Asymmetric nuclear matter in a parity doublet model with hidden local symmetry

Nuclear Theory 2015-08-12 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We construct a model to describe dense hadronic matter at zero and finite temperature, based on the parity doublet model of DeTar and Kunihiro, with including the iso-singlet scalar meson σ\sigma as well as ρ\rho and ω\omega mesons. We show that, by including a six-point interaction of σ\sigma meson, the model reasonably reproduces the properties of the normal nuclear matter with the chiral invariant nucleon mass m0m_0 in the range from 500 MeV500~{\rm MeV} to 900 MeV900~{\rm MeV}. Furthermore, we study the phase diagram based on the model, which shows that the value of the chiral condensate drops at the liquid-gas phase transition point and at the chiral phase transition point. We also study asymmetric nuclear matter and find that the first order phase transition for the liquid-gas phase transition disappears in asymmetric matter and that the critical density for the chiral phase transition at non-zero density becomes smaller for larger asymmetry.

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@article{arxiv.1505.00988,
  title  = {Asymmetric nuclear matter in a parity doublet model with hidden local symmetry},
  author = {Yuichi Motohiro and Youngman Kim and Masayasu Harada},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.00988},
  year   = {2015}
}

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8 pages, 9 figures