Neutron-proton mass difference in nuclear matter
Nuclear Theory
2008-11-26 v2
Abstract
Isospin-breaking effects in nuclear matter are studied in the framework of a medium-modified Skyrme model. The proposed effective Lagrangian incorporates both the medium influence of the surrounding nuclear environment on the single nucleon properties and an explicit isospin-breaking effect in the mesonic sector. The approach predicts that the neutron-proton mass difference decreases in isospin-symmetric nuclear matter but by a very small amount only.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0611066,
title = {Neutron-proton mass difference in nuclear matter},
author = {Ulf-G. Meißner and A. M. Rakhimov and A. Wirzba and U. T. Yakhshiev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0611066},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
8 pages, 4 figures, revised version