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In-medium Eta-Nucleon interactions and Eta nuclear bound states

Nuclear Theory 2015-06-18 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

The in-medium Eta-N interaction near and below threshold is constructed from a free-space chirally-inspired meson-baryon coupled-channel model that captures the physics of the N(1535) baryon resonance. Nucleon Pauli blocking and hadron self-energies are accounted for. The resulting energy dependent in-medium interaction is used in self-consistent dynamical calculations of Eta nuclear bound states. Narrow states of width about or less than 2 MeV are found across the periodic table, beginning with A=10, for this in-medium coupled-channel interaction model. The binding energy of the 1s-Eta state increases with A, reaching a value of B(1s-Eta) about 15 MeV. The implications of our self-consistency procedure are discussed with respect to procedures used in other works.

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@article{arxiv.1312.1547,
  title  = {In-medium Eta-Nucleon interactions and Eta nuclear bound states},
  author = {A. Cieplý and E. Friedman and A. Gal and J. Mareš},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.1547},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

21 pages, 1 table, 8 figures, matches published NPA version plus a new review [34] cited