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Catalysis of partial chiral symmetry restoration by Delta matter

Nuclear Theory 2018-06-13 v2

Abstract

We study the phase structure of dense hadronic matter including Δ(1232)\Delta(1232) as well as N(939) based on the parity partner structure, where the baryons have their chiral partners with a certain amount of chiral invariant masses. We show that, in symmetric matter, Δ\Delta enters into matter in the density region of about one to four times of normal nuclear matter density, ρB14ρ0\rho_B \sim 1 - 4\rho_0. The onset density of Δ\Delta matter depends on the chiral invariant mass of Δ\Delta, mΔ0m_{\Delta0}: The lager mΔ0m_{\Delta0}, the bigger the onset density. The Δ\Delta matter of ρB14ρ0\rho_B \sim 1 - 4\rho_0 is unstable due to the existence of Δ\Delta, and the stable Δ\Delta-nucleon matter is realized at about ρB4ρ0\rho_B \sim 4\rho_0, i.e., the phase transition from nuclear matter to Δ\Delta-nucleon matter is of first order for small mΔ0m_{\Delta0}, and it is of second order for large mΔ0m_{\Delta0}. We find that, associated with the phase transition, the chiral condensate changes very rapidly, i.e., the chiral symmetry restoration is accelerated by \Delta matter. As a result of the accelerations, there appear NN^*(1535) and Δ\Delta(1700), which are the chiral partners to N(939) and Δ{\Delta}(1232), in high density matter, signaling the partial chiral symmetry restoration. Furthermore, we find that complete chiral symmetry restoration itself is delayed by Δ\Delta matter. We also calculate the effective masses, pressure and symmetry energy to study how the transition to Δ\Delta matter affects such physical quantities. We observe that the physical quantities change drastically at the transition density.

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@article{arxiv.1704.04357,
  title  = {Catalysis of partial chiral symmetry restoration by Delta matter},
  author = {Yusuke Takeda and Youngman Kim and Masayasu Harada},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.04357},
  year   = {2018}
}

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14 pages, 27 figures