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Chiral restoration from pionic atoms?
We evaluate widths and shifts of pionic atoms using a theoretical
microscopical potential in which the pion decay constant is changed by
an in--medium density dependent one (), predicted by different
partial Chiral restoration calculations. We show that the results obtained for
shifts and widths are worse than if this modification were not implemented. On
the other hand, we argue that in microscopic many body approaches for the pion
selfenergy, based on effective Lagrangians, the mechanisms responsible for the
change of in the medium should be automatically incorporated.
Therefore, the replacement of by in the many body
derivation of the microscopic potential would be inappropriate.Comment: 10 pages, new comments and references adde
Quark mass dependence of s-wave baryon resonances
We study the quark mass dependence of J(P) = 1/2(-) s-wave baryon resonances. Parameter free results are obtained in terms of the leading order chiral Lagrangian. In the 'heavy' SU(3) limit with m(pi) = M-K similar or equal to 500 MeV the resonances turn into bound states forming two octets plus a singlet representations of the SU(3) group. A contrasted result is obtained in the 'light' SU(3) limit with m(pi) = m(K) similar or equal to 140 MeV for which no resonances exist. Using physical quark masses our analysis suggests to assign to the S = -2 resonances Xi(1690) and Xi(1620) the quantum numbers J(P) = 1/2(-)
bound states in nuclei
The energies and widths of bound states of the meson in different
nuclei are obtained using the results for its selfenergy in a nuclear medium,
which is evaluated in a selfconsistent manner using techniques of unitarized
chiral perturbation theory. We find bound states in all studied nuclei (from
on) and the half widths obtained are larger than the separation of
the levels, what makes the experimental observation of peaks unlikely. We have
paid a special attention to the region of nuclei where only the state
appears and the binding energies are of the order of magnitude of the half
width, which would magnify the chances that some broad peak could be observed.
This is found in the region of with a binding energy around 12.6
MeV and half width of 16.7 MeV. In heavy nuclei like there are
many bound states which would be difficult to disentangle and the deepest state
has a binding energy about 21 MeV and half width around 16 MeV. Such an
overlapping accumulation of states could be seen as an extension of the
continuum of strength into the bound region in production
experiments.Comment: 9 pages, Latex, 2 Figure
Self energies of the pion and the delta isobar from the ^3He(e,e'pi^+)^3H reaction
In a kinematically complete experiment at the Mainz microtron MAMI, pion
angular distributions of the He(e,e'H reaction have been measured
in the excitation region of the resonance to determine the
longitudinal (), transverse (), and the interference part of the
differential cross section. The data are described only after introducing
self-energy modifications of the pion and -isobar propagators. Using
Chiral Perturbation Theory (ChPT) to extrapolate the pion self energy as
inferred from the measurement on the mass shell, we deduce a reduction of the
mass of MeV/c in the
neutron-rich nuclear medium at a density of fm. Our data are consistent with the self energy
determined from measurements of photoproduction from He and heavier
nuclei.Comment: Elsart, 12 pages and 4 figures, Correspondent: Professor Dr. Dr. h.c.
mult. Achim Richter, [email protected], submitted to Phys. Rev.
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