Related papers: Eta-mesic nuclei: past, present, future
A deep understanding of neutrino-nucleus interaction is crucial for the precise measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters and cross section measurements. Various nuclear effects, such as initial state effects (IS) and Final state…
We shed light upon the eta' mass in nuclear matter in the context of partial restoration of chiral symmetry, pointing out that the U_{A}(1) anomaly effects causes the eta'-eta mass difference necessarily through the chiral symmetry…
The possible existence of $\eta$-mesic nuclei poses an interesting and still open issue of research. Since the occurence of such $\eta$-nucleus bound states is reflected in the corresponding $\eta$-nucleus scattering length, we critically…
The coherent $\eta$ meson energy $E_\eta$ distribution spectra in the proton nucleus reaction have been calculated to investigate the $\pi^0 - \eta$ mesons' interference, in addition to the study of resonance $N^*$ dynamics in the nucleus.…
The connection of the binding energy and width of possible bound eta-mesic states is given to the complex scattering length for s-states in the hope that, with knowledge of the final state interaction this could be useful in searches of…
First experimental results from a photoreaction which confirm an existence of eta-mesic nuclei are discussed. The experiment was performed at the 1 GeV electron synchrotron of LPI. Two values of the end-point energy of the bremsstrahlung…
The structure of eta-nucleus bound systems (eta mesic nuclei) is investigated as one of the tools to study in-medium properties of the N(1535) (N^*) resonance by using the chiral doublet model to incorporate the medium effects of the N^*…
Photo- and electroproduction of pions and eta-mesons is studied on the nucleon. The formalism of such reactions is presented including polarization degrees of freedom and theoretical approaches are discussed. In particular, the threshold…
The theory of nuclear structure (binding, low energy spectra, transitions, etc.) depends on nucleon-nucleon (NN) interactions. The meson theory of NN interactions has predictive power for NN scattering, and partial success when applied to…
The dynamics of $\eta$ meson produced in proton-induced nuclear reactions via the decay of N$^{\ast}(1535)$ has been investigated within the Lanzhou quantum molecular dynamics transport model (LQMD). The in-medium modifications of the…
We calculate the cross section for the production of $\eta$-mesons via \mbox{$\Delta N \to N N \eta$} in a relativistic One-Boson-Exchange-Model. Using this cross section we then determine the probability for the production of an…
Gluonic degrees of freedom play an important role in the masses of the eta and etaprime mesons. We discuss eta- and etaprime-nucleon and nucleus interactions where this glue may be manifest. Interesting processes being studied in…
The use of scattering length of particle-target interaction due to real- valued potential to study the bound states of the particle-target system is well known in nuclear and atomic physics. In view of the current interest in using…
The onset of binding $\eta$(548) mesons in nuclei is studied in the He isotopes by doing precise $\eta NNN$ and $\eta NNNN$ few-body stochastic variational method calculations for two semi-realistic $NN$ potentials and two energy dependent…
A new experiment is proposed with the aim to study eta-mesic nuclei and low-energy interactions of eta with nuclei. Two decay modes of eta produced by a photon beam inside a nucleus will be observed, namely a collisional decay \eta N \to…
We study the photoproduction of $\eta^\prime$ mesons from nuclei near the threshold within the collision model based on the nuclear spectral function. The model takes properly into account both primary photon-nucleon and secondary…
Using the Walecka model, we investigate theoretically whether an omega meson is bound to finite nuclei. We study several nuclei from ^{6}He to ^{208}Pb, and compare the results with those in the quark-meson coupling (QMC) model. Our…
The nuclear symmetry energy plays important role on the structure of finite nuclei as well as on the bulk properties of neutron stars. However, its values at high densities are completely uncertain and the corresponding experimental data…
Investigations of in-medium properties of the {\eta}'-meson are presented. The photoproduction of {\eta}'-mesons off C, Ca, Nb and Pb nuclei has been measured with the Crystal Barrel/TAPS detector system at the ELSA accelerator in Bonn.…
We discuss the role of QCD symmetries in understanding the eta and etaprime mesons in nuclear media. Recent results on the etaprime mass in nuclei from the CBELSA/TAPS collaboration are very similar to the prediction of the Quark Meson…