Journal article

Publication year: 2004

Pages: 81-148

Journal: Nuclear Physics A: Nuclear and Hadronic Physics

Volume number: 741

ISSN: 0375-9474

eISSN: 1873-1554

Open access status: Green

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2004.05.016

Publisher: Elsevier

Abstract: 
We study the in-medium properties of mesons (pi, eta, rho) and baryon resonances in cold nuclear matter within a coupled-channel analysis. The meson self energies are generated by particle-hole excitations. Thus multi-peak spectra are obtained for the mesonic spectral functions. In turn this leads to medium-modifications of the baryon resonances. Special care is taken to respect the analyticity of the spectral functions and to take into account effects from short-range correlations both for positive and negative parity states. Our model produces sensible results for pion and A dynamics in nuclear matter. We find a strong interplay of the p meson and the D 13 (1520), which moves spectral strength of the p spectrum to smaller invariant masses and leads to a broadening of the baryon resonance. The optical potential for the eta meson resulting from our model is rather attractive whereas the in-medium properties modifications of the S-11 (1535) are found to be quite small. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Harvard Citation style: Post, M., Leupold, S. and Mosel, U. (2004) Hadronic spectral functions in nuclear matter, Nuclear Physics A: Nuclear and Hadronic Physics, 741, pp. 81-148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2004.05.016

APA Citation style: Post, M., Leupold, S., & Mosel, U. (2004). Hadronic spectral functions in nuclear matter. Nuclear Physics A: Nuclear and Hadronic Physics. 741, 81-148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2004.05.016