Medium Modification of Hadrons
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.
- Research Organization:
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-06OR23177
- OSTI ID:
- 986370
- Report Number(s):
- JLAB-PHY-09-1035; DOE/OR/23177-1287
- Conference Information:
- Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Volume: 1257
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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