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Bottom-strange mesons in hyperonic matter

Nuclear Theory 2015-06-22 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The in-medium behavior of bottom-strange pseudoscalar mesons in hot, isospin asymmetric and dense hadronic environment is studied using a chiral effective model. The same was recently generalized to the heavy quark sector and employed to study the behavior of open-charm and open-bottom mesons. The heavy quark (anti-quark) is treated as frozen and all medium modifications of these bottom-strange mesons are due to their strange anti-quark (quark) content. We observe a pronounced dependence of their medium mass on baryonic density and strangeness content of the medium. Certain aspects of these in-medium interactions are similar to those observed for the strange-charmed mesons in a preceding investigation, such as the lifting of mass-degeneracy of BS0B_S^0 and BˉS0{\bar B}_S^0 mesons in hyperonic matter, while the same is respected in vacuum as well as in nuclear matter. In general, however, there is a remarkable distinction between the two species, even though the formalism predicts a completely analogous in-medium interaction Lagrangian density. We discuss in detail the reason for different in-medium behavior of these bottom-strange mesons as compared to charmed-strange mesons, despite the dynamics of the heavy quark being treated as frozen in both cases.

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@article{arxiv.1409.6207,
  title  = {Bottom-strange mesons in hyperonic matter},
  author = {Divakar Pathak and Amruta Mishra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.6207},
  year   = {2015}
}

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16 pages, 2 figures

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