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In-medium Pion-Pion Interaction and Chiral Symmetry Restoration

Nuclear Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We discuss medium modifications of the unitarized pion-pion interaction in the nuclear medium. We incorporate both the effects of chiral symmetry restoration and the influence of collective nuclear pionic modes, originating from the p-wave coupling of the pion to delta-hole configurations. We show how the resulting strong enhancement of the sigma-meson spectral function is related to large fluctuations of the condensate associated with the partial restoration of chiral symmetry.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0002032,
  title  = {In-medium Pion-Pion Interaction and Chiral Symmetry Restoration},
  author = {D. Davesne and Y. J. Zhang and G. Chanfray and J. Wambach},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0002032},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

8 pages, 3 Postscript figures, contribution to the `International Workshop XXVIII on Gross Properties of Nuclei and Nuclear Excitations', Hirschegg, Austria, January 16-22 2000