The study of the binding energy of nuclear matter in the relativistic σ− ω− π model with Δ isobar degree of freedom

The relativistic σ?ω?π model is proposed and used to calculate the binding energy of relativistic nuclear matter. By coupling Δ isobar to the σ meson, the zero-point fluctuation energy of the Δ isobar in the one loop approximation is derived. We calculate the effective mass of nucleon and Δ isobar, exchange and correlation energies, pressure and incompressibility of nuclear matter. The density dependence correction to σNN ωNN coupling constants is a very important mechanism to saturate the binding energy. The pion propagator is nuclear matter is constructed by the relativistic particle-hole, delta-hole and short-range correlation. The pion dispersion relation is calculated we find it’s very sensitive to the effective mass of nucleon and Δ isobar.     

Study of the Binding Energy of Relativistic Nuclear Matter in the Relativistic σ-ω-π Model

A relativistic σ-ω-π model is proposed to calculate the binding energy of relativistic nuclear matter. We put emphasis on the relativistic particle-hole, delta-hole excitation of pion propagator in nuclear matter. The renormalization of the nucleon self-energy in nuclear matter is made for the pseudo-vector πNN and πNΔ couplings by introducing corresponding form factor and by dispersion relation. We find that the density dependence correction to meson-NN coupling constants is very important to saturate the binding energy of nuclear matter. The density dependence correction to πNN and πNΔ coupling constants has the effect of softening the EOS of nuclear matter.     

The nucleon as a QCD bound state in a Faddeev approach

Established results for the quark propagator of Landau gauge QCD, together with a detailed comparison to lattice data, are implemented in a Poincaré-covariant Faddeev approach to the nucleon. The nucleon mass and its electromagnetic form factors, together with charge radii and magnetic moments, are calculated as a function of the current-quark mass. The role of the pion cloud is discussed.     

A covariant view on the nucleons’ quark core

Established results for the quark propagator in Landau gauge QCD, together with a detailed comparison to lattice data, are used to formulate a Poincaré-covariant Faddeev approach to the nucleon. The resultant three-quark amplitudes describe the quark core of the nucleon. The nucleon’s mass and its electromagnetic form factors are calculated as functions of the current quark mass. The corresponding results together with charge radii and magnetic moments are discussed in connection with the contributions from various ingredients in a consistent calculation of nucleon properties, as well as the role of the pion cloud in such an approach.     

Properties of the nucleon in the nuclear medium within a chiral quark-meson theory

The modifications of the nucleon structure due to the presence of an external baryon medium are investigated in a chiral quark meson theory. To that end the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model is combined with the projected chiral soliton model. The medium effects are incorporated using the medium modified values of the pion decay constant and the pion and sigma masses at finite density. These values are evaluated within the NJL model. Using functional integral techniques the latter is solved in a quark continuum at finite density. The effective meson values serve to fix the parameters of the linear chiral sigma model which is solved in a variational projected mean field approach in order to obtain the nucleon properties. All nucleon properties show modifications in the medium except for the pion nucleon coupling constant. The proton radius shows an increase of 19% and the nucleon mass a decrease of 17% if the medium reaches nuclear matter density. The magnetic moments and axial vector coupling constant are less modified. All form factors show remarkable reduction at finite transfer momenta.     

Re-study of Nucleon Pole Contribution in J/ψ → NN^-π Decay

We re-study nucleon pole contribution in J/ψ → NN^-π decays by including the imaginary part for the propagator of the off-shell nucleon with energy above π N threshold. It is found that when including the imaginary part in the propagator, the branching ratio of the decay width will descend about 11% compared with the result without including the imaginary part, no matter whether including the off-shell form factors or not. It also leads to a phase of up to 25° for the off-shell nucleon propagator at invariant mass around 1400 MeV. This effect needs to be considered for detailed partial wave analysis of N^＊ resonances around this mass region.     

Baryon structure from Lattice QCD

We present recent lattice results on the baryon spectrum, nucleon electromagnetic and axial form factors, nucleon to △ transition form factors as well as the △ electromagnetic form factors. The masses of the low lying baryons and the nucleon form factors are calculated using two degenerate flavors of twisted mass fermions down to pion mass of about 270 MeV. We compare to the results of other collaborations. The nucleon to △ transition and △ form factors are calculated in a hybrid scheme, which uses staggered sea quarks and domain wall valence quarks. The dominant magnetic dipole nucleon to △ transition form factor is also evaluated using dynamical domain wall fermions. The transverse density distributions of the △ in the infinite momentum frame are extracted using the form factors determined from lattice QCD.     

Analytic,non-perturbative,gauge-invariant quantum chromodynamics: Nucleon scattering and binding potentials

Removal of the quenched approximation in the mechanism which produced an analytic estimate of quark-binding potentials, along with a reasonable conjecture of the color structure of the nucleon formed by such a binding potential, is shown to generate an effective nucleon scattering and binding potential. The mass-scale factor on the order of the pion mass, previously introduced to define the transverse imprecision of quark coordinates, is again used, while the strength of the potential is proportional to the square of a renormalized quantum chromodynamics (QCD) coupling constant. The potential so derived does not include corrections due to spin, angular momentum, nucleon structure, and electroweak interactions; rather, it is qualitative in nature, showing how Nuclear Physics can arise from fundamental QCD.     

Relation between the charged and neutral pion–nucleon coupling constants in the Yukawa model

In the Yukawa-model framework for NN forces, a simple relation between the charged and neutral pion–nucleon coupling constants is derived. The relation implies that the charged pion–nucleon constant is larger than the neutral one since the np interaction is stronger than the pp interaction. The derived value of the charged pion–nucleon constant shows a very good agreement with one of the recent measurements. In relative units, the splitting between the charged and neutral pion–nucleon constants is predicted to be practically the same as that between the charged and neutral pion masses. The charge dependence of the NN scattering length arising from the mass difference between the charged and neutral pions is also analyzed.     

核物质中△(1 232)粒子的介质效应

利用手征有效场论, 通过对核物质中核子传播子的修正, 研究了核物质中的△(1 232)粒子的有效质量和衰变宽度。 发现△(1 232)粒子的有效质量随核物质密度的增加而减小, 而衰变宽度随核物质密度的增加而增加; △(1 232)粒子衰变宽度的变化主要取决于核子有效质量以及△(1 232)粒子有效质量的变化。 Based on the chiral effective field theory (CHEFT), we study the effective mass and decay width of △(1 232) in the nuclear matter with the modified nucleon propagator. We find that the effective mass of △(1 232) decreases, while the decay width of △(1 232) increases with increasing the density of nuclear matter. And the decay width of △(1 232) mainly depends on the effective masses of nucleon and △(1 232)     

The Relation Between Instantons and Nucleon structure

A scheme of combining the theory of many instantons and the effective Lagrangian of QCD is proposed to study the nucleon structure. With this approach, the vacuum structure of nonperturbative QCD is discussed and a reasonable potential of quark confinement is obtained. The calculated results of the constituent quark mass and the decay constant of pion agree with experimental data quite well.     

三体核力重排效应对核物质中单核子平均场的贡献

在微观多体Brueckner-Hartree-Fock理论框架内, 实现了三体核力对核物质中单核子势的重排贡献的计算, 研究了三体核力重排贡献对单核子平均势场的动量相关性和密度依赖性的影响. 另外, 还计算了核物质中核子的有效质量并着重讨论了三体核力重排效应的影响. 结果表明: 三体核力对单核子势的重排贡献具有排斥性, 而且三体核力的重排效应随动量和密度的增加而迅速增强; 在高密度和高动量区域这一排斥贡献具有很强的动量相关性并起到了减弱单核子势吸引性和增强单核子势动量相关性的重要作用, 有助于澄清非相对论性BHF平均势场在高密度和高动量区域吸引性过强和动量相关性过弱的问题.     

The role of the pion cloud in the interpretation of the valence light-cone wavefunction of the nucleon

The pion cloud renormalises the light-cone wavefunction of the nucleon which is measured in hard, exclusive photon-nucleon reactions. We discuss the leading twist contributions to high-energy exclusive reactions taking into account both the pion cloud and perturbative QCD physics. The nucleon’s electromagnetic form-factor at high Q² is proportional to the bare nucleon probability Z and the cross-sections for hard (real at large angle or deeply virtual) Compton scattering are proportional to Z². Our present knowledge of the pion-nucleon system is consistent with Z = 0.7 ± 0.2. If we apply just perturbative QCD to extract a light-cone wavefunction directly from these hard exclusive cross-sections, then the light-cone wavefunction that we extract measures the three valence quarks partially screened by the pion cloud of the nucleon. We discuss how this pion cloud renormalisation effect might be understood at the quark level in terms of the (in-)stability of the perturbative Dirac vacuum in low energy QCD.     

核物质中内介质等效手征Lagrange量和π介子质量

在核物质中从手征等效Lagrange量得到的π介子有效质量是单值的,并且与π介子场的离壳扩展无关,例如PCAC选择.同位旋对称核物质中的有效π介子质量随增加的核密度有些上升,因此有效类时π介子衰变常数和密度相关的夸克凝聚渐渐下降.另外研究了内介质Gell–Mann–Oakes–Renner关系和其它内介质同一性.最后讨论了同位旋对称、各向同性和均匀的核物质中关于介子传播的等效Lagrange量的几个限制.     

Density dependence of nucleon radius and mass in the global color symmetry model of QCD with a sophisticated effective gluon propagator

Making use of the global color symmetry model (GCM) at finite chemical potential and with a sophisticated effective gluon propagator, the density dependence of the bag constant, the total energy and the radius of a nucleon in nuclear matter is investigated. A maximal nuclear matter density for the existence of the bag with three quarks confined within is given as about 8 times the normal nuclear matter density. The calculated results indicate that, before the maximal density is reached, the bag constant and the total energy of a nucleon decrease, and the radius of a nucleon increases, with the increasing of the nuclear matter density. As the maximal nuclear matter density is reached, the mass and the bag constant of the nucleon vanish and the radius becomes infinite suddenly. It manifests that a phase transition from nucleons to quarks takes place. Meanwhile, shortening the interaction range among quarks can induce the phase transition to happen easier.     

手征σ模型中σ介子的质量与核物质结合能曲线关系的研究

文中研究了手征σ模型下σ介子的质量m_σ与核物质结合能曲线的关系,主要的目的是研究在单圈图近似下所谓的“快子极点”问题,即σ或π介子质量的平方变为负数,这将导致能量密度为虚数.把m_σ看成自由参数并通过拟合核物质的饱和性质而确定,结果表明,在单圈图真空起伏近似下,并选重整化点在质量壳上,当m_σ=307.5MeV而且核密度小于4.43倍正常饱和密度时,“快子极点”没有出现,因此首先得到了核物质结合能曲线以及计算了不可压缩系数K(≌175.7MeV).     

重离子碰撞中K介子和π介子产生的统一动力学模拟

用RVUU模型统一地研究了重离子碰撞中产生的K介子和π介子的动力学过程.考虑了K产生和输运过程的介质效应,同时,计入了π在核物质中的传播.用它模拟了每核子1GeV入射能量的重离子碰撞中π产生和阈下K产生过程.讨论了核介质效应对π末态性质的影响,以及对K末态性质的联带影响.计算结果表明,吸引的π光学势,影响了末态π动量分布,使横动量分布中具有小动量的π产额增大,同时明显增大了K的产额,改变了K的动量分布.这说明要合理地评价重离子碰撞的探测信息,需要统一地研究K和π的这些末态动力学作用.     

Investigation of Self-Consistent Relativistic Microscopic Optical Potential

In Dirac-Brueckner calculations for nuclear matter,the average binding energy per nucleon versus density curve is not uniquely defined if coupling to anti-particle is neglected.According to the Hugenholtz-Van Hove theorem,a constraint requires that the nucleon separation energy equals to the fermi energy at saturation density.Choosing saturation energy as empirical value E_B/A=－15.8MeV,the self-consistent calculation leads to the saturation density k_f=1.41fm^－1 and effective mass m*=0.52m,in compressive coefficient k=208MeV.Applying the first law of thermodynamics,self-consistent effective mass (real scalar potential) and the binding energy per nucleon as function of the nuclear density can be obtained.With the realistic nucleon-nucleon interaction (Bonn potential),the vector potential can be obtained from solving the RBBG equation,which weakly depends on the momentum.The cross section and spin observables of the nucleon-nucleus scattering are studied with this new self-consistent relativistic microscopic optical potential.     

Analysis of Collective Flow in High Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions in the Relativistic VUU Approach

We have calculated the collective flow for Ar+KCl collisions of 1200 MeV/A by using the relativistic Vlasov-Uehling- Uhlenbeck (VUU) equation based on the QHD-I model of Walecka. The tensitivity of flow characterized by C(ψ)a nd (P_x(Y))to mean field and in-medium NN scattering cross section is studied. It is found that the azimuthal correlation function C(ψ) is reduced dramatically after inserting the collision term and then varies very slowly between NN cross sections from σ = 10 mb to 55 mb and reaches the minimum at σ = 35 mb, while the in-plane mean transverse momentum (P_x(Y))in creases slowly all the way from σ = 0 mb to 55 mb. The collective flow is very sensitive to the momentum dependence (indicated by the effective mass m⁰) of the mean field and less sensitive to the compression modulus K and the cross sections from σ = 10 mb to 55 mb. The numerical results were compared with the experimental data, and we found that the agreement for both (P_x(Y)) and C(ψ) can be reached with the same set of mean field parameters as well as the appropriate NN cross section in collision terms.