Medium Modification of Hadrons

Journal Article · Thu Aug 05 04:00:00 EDT 2010 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3483371· OSTI ID:21426434

Djalali, Chaden ^[1]

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1. University of South Carolina, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Columbia, SC 29208 (United States)

The theory of the strong interaction, Quantum Chromodynamics, has been remarkably successful in describing high-energy and short-distance-scale experiments involving quarks and gluons. However, applying QCD to low energy and large-distance-scale experiments has been a major challenge. Chiral symmetry is one of the most fundamental symmetries in QCD and provides guiding principles to deal with strong interaction phenomena in the non-perturbative domain. Various QCD-inspired models predict a modification of the properties of hadrons in nuclear matter from their free-space values. A review of experiments searching for the in-medium modifications of light mesons and baryons will be given trying to assess if they confirm or refute these theoretical predictions.

• OSTI ID: 21426434
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 1257; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
BARYONS
BASIC INTERACTIONS
BOSONS
CHIRAL SYMMETRY
COMPOSITE MODELS
DECAY
DISTANCE
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
FERMIONS
FIELD THEORIES
GLUONS
HADRONS
INTERACTION RANGE
INTERACTIONS
LEPTONIC DECAY
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MATTER
MESONS
NUCLEAR MATTER
PARTICLE DECAY
PARTICLE MODELS
QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
QUARK MODEL
STRONG INTERACTIONS
SYMMETRY
WEAK INTERACTIONS
WEAK PARTICLE DECAY