Chiral Symmetry in Nuclear Physics

Abstract

The role of chiral symmetry in nuclear physics is summarized. The topics treated are the chiral bag model for nucleon structure resulting from large $N_c$ QCD, the pion cloud in chiral perturbation theory for low-energy electroweak nuclear response functions, ``swelled hadrons" in nuclear matter, chiral symmetry restoration in terms of the Georgi vector limit and pseudo-Goldstone meson condensation in nuclear medium.

(based on talk given at International Symposium on Medium Energy Physics, August 22-26, 1994, Beijing, China), 15 pages (3 figures not included, supplied upon request), Latex, Saclay T95/100

References in corpus (9)

• An accurate nucleon-nucleon potential with charge-independence breaking
• The Two-Nucleon Potential from Chiral Lagrangians
• Continuity of Quark and Hadron Matter
• Kaon production in heavy-ion collisions and maximum mass of neutron stars
• The Solar Proton Burning Process Revisited In Chiral Perturbation Theory
• From Chiral Lagrangians to Landau Fermi Liquid Theory of Nuclear Matter
• The Proton Spin in the Chiral Bag Model : Casimir Contribution and Cheshire Cat Principle
• Scaling Of Chiral Lagrangians And Landau Fermi Liquid Theory For Dense Hadronic Matter
• Medium Dependence of the Vector-Meson Mass: Dynamical and/or Brown-Rho Scaling?

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• Chiral perturbation theory
• Compton Scattering by Nuclei
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