Nuclear medium effects from hadronic atoms
Abstract
The state of the art in the study of pionic, kaonic and Sigmionic atoms, along with the in-medium nuclear interactions deduced for these hadrons, is reviewed. A special emphasis is placed on recent developments in antikaon-nuclear physics, where a strongly attractive density dependent antikaon-nuclear potential of order 150-200 MeV in nuclear matter emerges by fitting K^- atom data. This has interesting repercussions on antikaon quasibound nuclear states, on the composition of strange hadronic matter and on kaon condensation in self bound hadronic systems.
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@article{arxiv.1108.2156,
title = {Nuclear medium effects from hadronic atoms},
author = {E. Friedman and A. Gal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.2156},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
updated version of presentation by A. Gal in INPC10, Vancouver, July 2010; dedicated to Gerry Brown on the occasion of his 85th birthday; From Nuclei to Stars, Festschrift in Honor of Gerald E. Brown, Ed. Sabine Lee (World Scientific, 2011) pp.127-140