Compton Scattering and Pion Number in Nuclei

Nov, 1986
6 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 188 (1987) 11-16
  • Published: 1987
Report number:
  • CERN-TH-4597/86

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
We explore the relation between the spin-independent Compton amplitude and the pion excess number per nucleon n π in nuclear matter and for the dueteron. We show that the enhancement factor K of the photonuclear sum rule, which appears as a meson exchange correction to this amplitude, is related to n π by K ≈ 16 3 n π M〈ω π −1 〉 where 〈ω π −1 〉 is the mean inverse pion energy. This relation is justified by the consideration of the chiral limit where the pion mass vanishes.
  • COMPTON SCATTERING: SCATTERING AMPLITUDE
  • SCATTERING AMPLITUDE: COMPTON SCATTERING
  • SUM RULE: ENHANCEMENT
  • CORRELATION FUNCTION
  • PI: EXCHANGE
  • EXCHANGE: PI
  • DEUTERON
  • NUCLEAR MATTER
  • PI: DENSITY
  • NUMERICAL CALCULATIONS