Is chiral symmetry manifested in nuclear structure?
Nuclear Theory
2010-04-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
Spontaneously broken chiral symmetry is an established property of low-energy quantum chromodynamics, but finding direct evidence for it from nuclear structure data is a difficult challenge. Indeed, phenomenologically successful energy-density functional approaches do not even have explicit pions. Are there smoking guns for chiral symmetry in nuclei?
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1001.0327,
title = {Is chiral symmetry manifested in nuclear structure?},
author = {R. J. Furnstahl and A. Schwenk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.0327},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
5 pages. Contribution to the "Focus issue on Open Problems in Nuclear Structure", Journal of Physics G