Nucleon properties in the nuclear medium

We study the medium modifications of nucleon properties in nuclear matter and finite nuclei. The nucleons are described as nontopological solitons, which interact through the self-consistent exchange of scalar and vector mesons. The model adopted incorporates explicit quark degrees of freedom into nuclear many-body systems, and it can provide satisfactory results on the properties of nuclear matter and finite nuclei.     

夸克平均场模型研究有限核及超核

采用组分夸克模型描述重子,首先由自由核子及超子的性质定出模型参数,进一步考虑核介质中重子性质的变化,核介质中的介子平均场直接与重子内部的组分夸克相互作用.夸克平均场模型已被用于研究有限核及超核的性质,能够给出令人满意的有限核及超核的性质,该模型也预言了核介质中核子体积的膨胀及核子有效质量的降低. The quark mean field model, which describes the baryon by using the constituent quark model, is applied to study the properties of finite nuclei and hypernuclei. The meson mean fields couple directly with the quarks and change the properties of baryons in nuclear medium. The quark mean field model provides satisfactory results on the properties of spherical nuclei and hypernuclei. It also predicts an increasing size of the nucleon as well as a reduction of the effective mass in the nuclear environment.     

矢量介子的辐射衰变

介子的辐射衰变是低能强子物理研究的重要方向, 通过它能够揭示介子的结构和性质。从有效场论的观点来看,介子衰变主要包含光子和强子之间的相互作用。使用SU(3)对称性和VMD模型分别对矢量介子的辐射衰变进行了研究。 通过对实验数据进行拟和,给出了在两种情形下V→Pγ的衰变宽度的理论值,并得到赝标量混合角θP 为－6°。 Radiative decay of mesons is an important aspect in low energy hadronic physics,through which structures and properties of mesons can be revealed. In view of effective field theories, the radiative decay of mesons involves mainly interactions between photons and hadrons. In this paper,we investigate the decay of vector mesons by using SU(3) symmetry and the vector meson dominance model respectively. By fitting with experiments, we give the theoretic widths for V→Pγ in both cases and the mixing angle of pseudoscalars θP is －6°.     

核介质中强子性质的手征σ模型研究

采用手征σ模型描述核多体系统,考虑真空极化的影响,首先由核物质的饱和性质确定模型参数,进一步研究了强子性质在核介质中的变化。手征σ模型的研究结果给出,核子和ω介子的有效质量随核物质密度的增大而减小,但σ介子的有效质量随密度的增大而增大。这些结果与不满足手征对称性的Walecka模型结果进行了比较。计算中采用的重整化方法会对结果有一定的影响。The modification of hadron masses in nuclear medium is studied by using the chiral sigma model, which is extended to generate the omega meson mass by the sigma condensation in the vacuum in the same way as the nucleon mass. The chiral sigma model provides proper equilibrium properties of nuclear matter. It is shown that the effective masses of both nucleons and omega mesons decrease in nuclear medium, while the effective mass of sigma mesons increases at finite density in the chiral sigma model. The resuits obtained in the chiral sigma model are compared with those obtained in the Walecka model, which includes sigma and omega mesons in a non-chiral fashion.     

核物质中的夸克凝聚

核物质中的夸克凝聚是在夸克层次研究核物理遇到的基本问题之一,特别是,它与核环境下强子性质的研究紧密相关．近年来,国内外对此开展了若干研究．简要介绍这方面的研究现状和指出存在的问题． Quark condensates in nuclear matter are one of the key problems for the study of nuclear physics at quark lever, and it is related closely to a deeper understanding of the properties of hadrons in nuclear matter. Recently we have seen some investigations made of the above subject. The present status and open problems are described in this paper.     

手征胶子修正夸克平均场模型

这项工作利用考虑π介子与胶子效应的夸克平均场模型研究原子核结构的基本性质。在夸克平均场中,核子由三个束缚在谐振子势场中的组分夸克构成。描述强相互作用的量子色动力学必须满足手征对称性,此外夸克之间也需要通过交换胶子相互作用。因此,在夸克平均场模型中,对利用夸克势获得的核子质量考虑π介子修正与胶子修正。通过少数稳定有限核的结合能与半径实验值确定模型中的未知参数,获得了一组夸克平均场相互作用参数,QMF-NK。利用该组参数计算40Ca和208Pb的电荷密度分布,发现与实验值符合很好。随后获得了与经验值一致的对称核物质的饱和性质。包含π介子修正和胶子修正的夸克平均场模型能够更好地描述有限核和核物质的性质。The basic properties of nuclear structure are studied within the quark mean field (QMF) model by taking the effects of pions and gluons into account. In QMF, the nucleon is made up of three constituent quarks confined by a harmonic oscillator potential. The quantum chromodynamics describing the strong interaction must satisfy the chiral symmetry and quarks interact with each other through exchange of gluons. Therefore pion correction and gluon correction are included in the nucleon mass obtained by using quark confinement potential in quark mean field model. We determine the unknown parameters in the model by fitting the experimental data of the binding energies and radii of several stable finite nuclei and obtain a set of parameters of quark mean field interaction, named QMF-NK. The charge density distributions of 40Ca and 208Pb are calculated, which are in good agreement with the experimental data. Later the saturation properties of symmetric nuclear matter which are consistent with the empirical data are obtained. With the pion and gluon corrections, the QMF model could treat finite nuclei and nuclear matter better.     

强子结构与核结构

本文列举了核内存在非核子自由度的证据;论证了核结构的研究必须突破传统的框架,进入到核子及介子的内部结构,才能对原子核内部运动有深入的了解.本文还扼要论述了核物理研究的现状与前景. This paper presents some important experimental evidences of non-nucleonic degrees of freedom in nuclei.From these evidences,the nuclear structure research must go be- yond the traditional framework of nuclear research.To get deeper understanding of the nucle- us,one has to go to the internal structure of hadrons.The present status and future prospects of this new development in nuclear physics are also dicussed briefly.     

Properties of Strange Matter in a Model with Effective lagrangian

The strange hadronic mater with nucleons,Λ-hyperons and Ξ-hyperons is studied by using an effective nuclear model in a mean-field approximation.The density and strangeness fraction dependence of the effective baryon masses as well as the saturation properties and stabilities of the strange hadronic matter are discussed.     

量子色动力学与核物理

概述了量子色动力学和中高能核物理在核散射、核子特性及核子－核子相互作用势方面的密切联系． The close relation between quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and the nuclear.physics in medium and high energy regions is briefly reviewed in some aspects such as nuclear scatterings, nueleon propertics as well as the interactions between nucleons.     

Some Properties of π Meson in Nuclear Matter with Finite Density

In the GCM we study some properties of π meson as the Goldstone bosons in a nuclear matter with finite density.Using the effective action in a nuclear matter,we calculate the decay constant and π mass as functions of the chemical potential.The relation between the chemical potential and the density of a nuclear matter is firstly given here.We find that fπ and mπ monotonously decrease as nuclear matter density increases.The result is consistent with the usual assumption that the chiral symmetry is gradually restored as the density of a nuclear matter increases.     

A possible quark mechanism for the saturation of nuclear matter

A nuclear matter saturation mechanism based on the quark structure of the nucleon is proposed. Nuclear matter is described by nucleons and mesons but the meson field modifies the internal quark motion and this induces a saturation mechanism. Its possible relevance for nuclear physics is studied in a schematic model where it is the only active mechanism. Though caricatural, this model provides a rather satisfactory interpretation of the nuclear matter properties.     

Matter-induced ω→ππ decay

We calculate the width for the ω→ππ decay in nuclear matter in a hadronic model including mesons, nucleons and Δ isobars. We find a substantial width of the longitudinally polarized ω modes, reaching ∼100 MeV for mesons moving suitably fast with respect to the nuclear medium. Received: 7 June 1999 / Revised version: 14 October 1999     

Deep processes in nuclei and in-medium dressing of the nucleons and mesons

K⁺ scattering and quasielastic electron scattering from nuclei are expected to provide information about the nucleons and mesons in the inner regions of nuclei. The K⁺- nucleus cross sections and the quasielastic electron-nucleus response functions have been calculated taking into account the same in-medium dressing of the nucleons and the same coupling of the σ and ω mesons to the polarization of nuclear matter. We obtain a good agreement with experimental data for the two processes.     

Do ordinary nuclei contain exotic states of matter?

The strongly repulsive core of the short-range nucleon-nucleon interaction leads to the existence of high-momentum nucleons in nuclei. Inclusive electron scattering can be used to probe these high-momentum nucleons and study the nature of the corresponding short-range correlations in nuclei. With recent data from Jefferson Lab we have begun to map out the strength of two-nucleon correlations in nuclei, while upcoming experiments should allow us to isolate the presence of multi-nucleon correlations. In addition to their importance in describing nuclear structure, these configurations of correlated nucleons represent high-density ‘droplets’ of hadronic matter. As the density of hadronic matter increases there should be a weakening of quark confinement, similar to the onset of deconfinement expected at extremely high temperatures. While there have been hints of non-hadronic structure in nuclei, future measurements will allow us to directly probe the quark distributions of high-density configurations in nuclei. A modified quark structure in these closely packed nucleons would provide a clear signature of exotic components to the structure of nuclei.     

A simple semiempirical equation of state for cold nuclear matter

On the basis of gross properties of nuclei, a simple semiempirical equation of state is developed for cold hadronic matter composed of light quarks of two flavors. The source of binding energy in the model is the decreasing asymmetry between the number of up and down quarks in extended regions of overlapping nucleons. The resulting incompressibility of symmetric nuclear matter at equilibrium density is K=324 MeV. The incompressibility decreases rapidly with decreasing density but increases only slowly with increasing density until homogenous quark matter is reached at a density just above three times ordinary nuclear matter density.     

QCD aspects of hadron physics

Several topics in hadron physics at different scales of resolution are discussed. First, deep-inelastic scattering from nucleons and nuclei is viewed in a light-come coordinate space picture. Then the smooth transition from parton to hadron degrees of freedom is demonstrated by analysing generalized Q²-dependent polarizabilities of the nucleon. Turning to low energy QCD we summarize recent developments related to the role of strange quarks in Chiral SU(3) Dynamics, a non-perturbative coupled channel approach to hadronic processes. Finally we elaborate on a unification of QCD Sum Rules with aspects of spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in the analysis of quark-antiquark excitations of the condensed QCD vacuum and in nuclear matter.     

Self-consistent hartree description of finite nuclei in a relativistic quantum field theory

Relativistic Hartree equations for spherical nuclei are derived from a relativistic nuclear quantum field theory using a coordinate-space Green function approach. The renormalizable field theory lagrangian includes the interaction of nucleons with σ, ω, ρ and π mesons and the photon. The Hartree equations represent the “mean-field” approximation for a finite nuclear system. Coupling constants and the σ-meson mass are determined from the properties of nuclear matter and the rms charge radius in ⁴⁰Ca, and pionic contributions are absent for static, closed-shell nuclei. Calculated charge densities, neutron densities, rms radii, and single-nucleon energy levels throughout the periodic table are compared with data and with results of non-relativistic calculations. Relativistic Hartree results agree with experiment at a level comparable to that of the most sophisticated non-relativistic calculations to date. It is shown that the Lorentz covariance of the relativistic formalism leads naturally to density-dependent interactions between nucleons. Furthermore, non-relativistic reduction reveals non-central and non-local aspects inherent in the Hartree formalism. The success of this simple relativistic Hartree approach is attributed to these features of the interaction.     

Chiral solitons in nuclei: saturation, EMC effect, and Drell-Yan experiments

The chiral quark-soliton model of the nucleon contains a mechanism for an attractive interaction between nucleons. This, along with the exchange of vector mesons between nucleons, is used to compute the saturation properties of infinite nuclear matter. This provides a new way to assess the effects of the nuclear medium on a nucleon that includes valence and sea quarks. We show that the model simultaneously describes the nuclear EMC effect and the related Drell-Yan experiments.