arXiv · 1901.06008
Pion structure in a nuclear medium
Abstract
The structure and electroweak properties of the pion in symmetric nuclear matter are presented in the framework of the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model. The pion is described as a bound state of a dressed quark-antiquark pair governed by the Bethe-Salpeter equation. For the in-medium current-light-quark properties we use the quark-meson coupling model, which describes successfully the properties of hadron in a nuclear medium. We found that the light-quark condensates, the pion decay constant and pion-quark coupling constant decrease with increasing nuclear matter density. We then predict the modifications of the charge radius of the charged pion in nuclear matter.
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Parada. T. P. Hutauruk, Yongseok Oh, K. Tsushima. 2019-01-17. Pion structure in a nuclear medium. https://doi.org/10.7566/jpscp.26.031031
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