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J/psi and eta_c in the nuclear medium: QCD sum rule approach

Nuclear Theory 2011-09-29 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We investigate the masses of the lowest c\bar{c} states, the J/psi and eta_c, in nuclear matter using QCD sum rules. Up to dimension four, the differences between the operator product expansions in vacuum and in medium arise from the density-dependent change in the gluon condensate and from a new contribution proportional to the nucleon expectation value of the twist-2 gluon operator. Both terms together give an attractive shift of about 5-10 MeV to the J/psi and eta_c masses in nuclear matter.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9811070,
  title  = {J/psi and eta_c in the nuclear medium: QCD sum rule approach},
  author = {Frank Klingl and Sungsik Kim and Su Houng Lee and Philippe Morath and Wolfram Weise},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9811070},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

4 pages, ReVTeX, 2 figures in eps, submitted to Phys.Rev.Lett. Updated version: an error in eqn. 4 has been corrected, several references have been added, figures have been revised