Saturation from nuclear pion dynamics
Nuclear Theory
2010-12-16 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We construct an equation-of-state for nuclear matter based on the chiral Lagrangian. The relevant scales are discussed and an effective chiral power expansion scheme, which is constructed to work around the nuclear saturation density, is presented. A realistic equation-of-state is obtained by adjusting one free parameter, when the leading and subleading terms in the expansion are included. The saturation mechanism is due to correlations induced by the one-pion-exchange interaction. Furthermore, we find a substantial deviation from the Fermi-gas estimate of the quark condensate in nuclear matter already at the saturation density.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9907078,
title = {Saturation from nuclear pion dynamics},
author = {M. Lutz and B. Friman and Ch. Appel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9907078},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
revised version, with minor corrections, 13 pages, 3 Postscript figures