324 research outputs found
Loosely bound hyperons in the SU(3) Skyrme model
Hyperon pairs bound in deuteron like states are obtained within the SU(3)
Skyrme model in agreement with general expectations from boson exchange models.
The central binding from the flavor symmetry breaking terms increases with the
strangeness contents of the interacting baryons whereas the kinetic non-linear
-model term fixes the spin and isospin of the bound pair. We give a
complete account of the interactions of octet baryons within the product
approximation to baryon number configurations.Comment: 35 pages REVTEX including 2 figs, with 3 further figs available on
request from [email protected] or from [email protected]
SI-94-TP3S2; STPHY-Th/94-
Flavor symmetry breaking effects on SU(3) Skyrmion
We study the massive SU(3) Skyrmion model to investigate the flavor symmetry
breaking (FSB) effects on the static properties of the strange baryons in the
framework of the rigid rotator quantization scheme combined with the improved
Dirac quantization one. Both the chiral symmetry breaking pion mass and FSB
kinetic terms are shown to improve the ratio of the strange-light to
light-light interaction strengths and that of the strange-strange to
light-light.Comment: 12 pages, latex, no figure
Fluctuation properties of strength functions associated with giant resonances
We performed fluctuation analysis by means of the local scaling dimension for
the strength function of the isoscalar (IS) and the isovector (IV) giant
quadrupole resonances (GQR) in Ca, where the strength functions are
obtained by the shell model calculation within up to the 2p2h configurations.
It is found that at small energy scale, fluctuation of the strength function
almost obeys the Gaussian orthogonal ensemble (GOE) random matrix theory limit.
On the other hand, we found a deviation from the GOE limit at the intermediate
energy scale about 1.7MeV for the IS and at 0.9MeV for the IV. The results
imply that different types of fluctuations coexist at different energy scales.
Detailed analysis strongly suggests that GOE fluctuation at small energy scale
is due to the complicated nature of 2p2h states and that fluctuation at the
intermediate energy scale is associated with the spreading width of the
Tamm-Dancoff 1p1h states.Comment: 14 pages including 13figure
Acute renal proximal tubule alterations during induced metabolic crises in a mouse model of glutaric aciduria type 1
AbstractThe metabolic disorder glutaric aciduria type 1 (GA1) is caused by deficiency of the mitochondrial glutaryl-CoA dehydrogenase (GCDH), leading to accumulation of the pathologic metabolites glutaric acid (GA) and 3-hydroxyglutaric acid (3OHGA) in blood, urine and tissues. Affected patients are prone to metabolic crises developing during catabolic conditions, with an irreversible destruction of striatal neurons and a subsequent dystonic–dyskinetic movement disorder. The pathogenetic mechanisms mediated by GA and 3OHGA have not been fully characterized. Recently, we have shown that GA and 3OHGA are translocated through membranes via sodium-dependent dicarboxylate cotransporter (NaC) 3, and organic anion transporters (OATs) 1 and 4. Here, we show that induced metabolic crises in Gcdh−/− mice lead to an altered renal expression pattern of NaC3 and OATs, and the subsequent intracellular GA and 3OHGA accumulation. Furthermore, OAT1 transporters are mislocalized to the apical membrane during metabolic crises accompanied by a pronounced thinning of proximal tubule brush border membranes. Moreover, mitochondrial swelling and increased excretion of low molecular weight proteins indicate functional tubulopathy. As the data clearly demonstrate renal proximal tubule alterations in this GA1 mouse model during induced metabolic crises, we propose careful evaluation of renal function in GA1 patients, particularly during acute crises. Further studies are needed to investigate if these findings can be confirmed in humans, especially in the long-term outcome of affected patients
Hot Nucleons in Chiral Soliton Models
Chiral lagrangians as effective field theories of QCD are most suitable for
the study of nucleons in a hot pion gas because they contain pions and also
baryons as solitons of the same action. The semiclassical treatment of the
soliton solutions must be augmented by pionic fluctuations which requires
renormalisation to 1-loop, and finite temperatures do not introduce new
ultraviolet divergencies and may easily be considered. Alternatively, a
renormalisation scheme based on the renormalisation group equation at finite
temperature comprises and extends the rigorous results of chiral perturbation
theory and renders the low energy constants temperature-dependent which allows
the construction of temperature-dependent solitons below the critical
temperature. The temperature-dependence of the baryon energy and the
pion-nucleon coupling is studied. There is no simple scaling law for the
temperature-dependence of these quantities.Comment: 17 pages (RevTeX), 5 figure
Semiclassical quantization of SU(3) skyrmions
Semiclassical quantization of the SU(3)-skyrmions is performed by means of
the collective coordinate method. The quantization condition known for the
SU(2)-solitons quantized with SU(3) collective coordinates is generalized for
the SU(3) skyrmions with strangeness content different from zero. Quantization
of the dipole-type configuration with large strangeness content found recently
is considered as an example, the spectrum and the mass splitting of the
quantized states are estimated. The energy and baryon number density of SU(3)
skyrmions are presented in the form emphasizing their symmetry in different
SU(2) subgroups of SU(3), and the lower boundary for the static energy of SU(3)
skyrmions is derived.Comment: 16 pages, 2 figures (available upon request). Submitted to JETP on
May 6, 1997; in print. A preliminary short version of this paper is
hep-th/960916
Role of Light Vector Mesons in the Heavy Particle Chiral Lagrangian
We give the general framework for adding "light" vector particles to the
heavy hadron effective chiral Lagrangian. This has strong motivations both from
the phenomenological and aesthetic standpoints. An application to the already
observed D \rightarrow \overbar{K^*} weak transition amplitude is discussed.Comment: 19 pages, LaTeX documen
Hypernuclei as chiral solitons
The identification of flavored multiskyrmions with the ground states of known
hypernuclei is successful for several of them, e.g. for isodoublet H(Lambda) -
He(Lambda), A=4, isoscalars He(Lambda) (A=5) and Li(Lambda) (A=7). In other
cases agreement is not so good, but the behaviour of the binding energy with
increasing baryon number is in qualitative agreement with data. Charmed or
beauty hypernuclei within this approach are predicted to be bound stronger than
strange hypernuclei. This conclusion is stable against variation of poorly
known heavy flavor decay constants.Comment: 9 pages, 1 Fig. Presented at the International Workshops on Nuclear
and Particle Physics at 50-Gev PS, NP01 (KEK, Japan, December 2001) and NP02
(Kyoto, Japan, September 2002). Some additions and corrections of numerical
results are mad
Mass and width of the resonance in nuclei
We calculated the mass and width of the resonance inside nuclei within a
nucleon- model by including the self-energy of the in the
propagator. We found that in the nuclear medium the width of the
is increased by one order of magnitude while its mass changes only by a few
MeV. This broadening of the width of the resonance embedded in nuclei is
consistent with the experimental observations so that the can be
understood as a resonance. Thus, given the freedom between either
isospin 0 or isospin 2 for the , our results give weigth to the isospin-2
assignment.Comment: 14 pages, RevteX type, 2 eps figures. To be published in Phys. Rev. C
(September
Electro-Magnetic Nucleon Form Factors and their Spectral Functions in Soliton Models
It is demonstrated that in simple soliton models essential features of the
electro-magnetic nucleon form factors observed over three orders of magnitude
in momentum transfer are naturally reproduced. The analysis shows that
three basic ingredients are required: an extended object, partial coupling to
vector mesons, and relativistic recoil corrections. We use for the extended
object the standard skyrmion, one vector meson propagator for both isospin
channels, and the relativistic boost to the Breit frame. Continuation to
timelike leads to quite stable results for the spectral functions in the
regime from the 2- or 3-pion threshold to about two rho masses. Especially the
onset of the continuous part of the spectral functions at threshold can be
reliably determined and there are strong analogies to the results imposed on
dispersion theoretic approaches by the unitarity constraint.Comment: 24 pages, (RevTeX), 5 PS-figures; Data points in fig.2 and
corresponding references added. Final version, to be published in Z.Physik
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