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Variation of hadron masses in nuclear matter in the relativistic Hartree approximation

Nuclear Theory 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

We study the modification of hadron masses due to the vacuum polarization using the chiral sigma model, which is extended to generate the ω\omega meson mass by the sigma condensation in the vacuum in the same way as the nucleon mass. The results obtained in the chiral sigma model are compared with those obtained in the Walecka model which includes σ\sigma and ω\omega mesons in a non-chiral fashion. It is shown that both the nucleon mass and the ω\omega meson mass decrease in nuclear medium, while the σ\sigma meson mass increases at finite density in the chiral sigma model.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/0409057,
  title  = {Variation of hadron masses in nuclear matter in the relativistic Hartree approximation},
  author = {H. Shen and S. Tamenaga and H. Toki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/0409057},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

10 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in Nucl.Phys.A