Institut de Physique Nucléaire, Université Claude Bernard Lyon-I and IN2P3, 43 Bd du 11 Novembre 1918, 69621, Villeurbanne, France
Abstract:
We show that the exclusion principle provides an alternative mechanism to the Lorentz-Lorenz effect for the renormalization of the pion-nucleon coupling constant in nuclei. This mechanism proves to be less sensitive to the range of the π - N forces. The implications for pion-nucleus scattering are discussed.