Hadrons in Medium -- Theory meets Experiment

Abstract

In this talk I give a short review of theoretical results on the properties of hadrons in cold, equilibrium nuclear matter. I then discuss the observable consequences of any changes of these properties inside the medium in actual experiments. I demonstrate that any experimental verification of in-medium effects requires a state-of-the-art treatment of the reaction dynamics and, in particular, also the final state interactions.

Invited talk at MENU07, Juelich, Germany, Sept. 2007; ref added

References in corpus (5)

• NA60 results on the rho spectral function in In-In collisions
• Three-body collisions in Boltzmann-Uehling-Uhlenbeck theory
• The influence of the nuclear medium on inclusive electron and neutrino scattering off nuclei
• Double pion photoproduction off 40Ca
• Medium Modifcations of Mesons in Elementary Reactions and Heavy-Ion Collisions