Strangeness and Charm in Nuclear Matter

Abstract

The properties of strange ($K$, $\bar{K}$ and ${\bar{K}}^{\ast }$) and open-charm ($D$, $\bar{D}$ and $D^{\ast }$) mesons in dense matter are studied using a unitary approach in coupled channels for meson-baryon scattering. In the strangeness sector, the interaction with nucleons always comes through vector-meson exchange, which is evaluated by chiral and hidden gauge Lagrangians. For the interaction of charmed mesons with nucleons we extend the SU(3) Weinberg-Tomozawa Lagrangian to incorporate spin-flavor symmetry and implement a suitable flavor symmetry breaking. The in-medium solution for the scattering amplitude accounts for Pauli blocking effects and meson self-energies. On one hand, we obtain the $K$, $\bar{K}$ and ${\bar{K}}^{\ast }$ spectral functions in the nuclear medium and study their behaviour at finite density, temperature and momentum. We also make an estimate of the transparency ratio of the $\gamma A\to K^{+}{K}^{\ast -}{A}^{\prime }$ reaction, which we propose as a tool to detect in-medium modifications of the ${\bar{K}}^{\ast }$ meson. On the other hand, in the charm sector, several resonances with negative parity are generated dynamically by the s-wave interaction between pseudoscalar and vector meson multiplets with $1/2^{+}$ and $3/2^{+}$ baryons. The properties of these states in matter are analyzed and their influence on the open-charm meson spectral functions is studied. We finally discuss the possible formation of $D$-mesic nuclei at FAIR energies.

8 pages, 9 figures, invited plenary talk, to appear in proceedings of the XI International Conference on Hypernuclear and Strange Particle Physics (HYP2012), Barcelona, October 1 - 5, 2012

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