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Studying medium effects with the optimized $\bdelta$ expansion

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-09-25 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The possibility of using the optimized δ\delta expansion for studying medium effects on hadronic properties in quark or nuclear matter is investigated. The δ\delta expansion is employed to study density effects with two commonly used models in hadron and nuclear physics, the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model for the dynamical chiral symmetry breaking and the Walecka model for the equation of state of nuclear matter. The results obtained with the δ\delta expansion are compared to those obtained with the traditional Hartree-Fock approximation. Perspectives for using the δ\delta expansion in other field theoretic models in hadron and nuclear physics are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9505216,
  title  = {Studying medium effects with the optimized $\bdelta$ expansion},
  author = {G. Krein and D. P. Menezes and M. Nielsen and M. B. Pinto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9505216},
  year   = {2009}
}

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24 pages in revtex, 9 figures (not included) available as ps files upon request