Chiral restoration from pionic atoms?

Feb, 2002
10 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 541 (2002) 64-70
e-Print:
Report number:
  • FTUV-02-1202,
  • IFIC-02-1202

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Abstract:
We evaluate widths and shifts of pionic atoms using a theoretical microscopical potential in which the pion decay constant fπf_\pi is changed by an in--medium density dependent one (fπ(ρ)f_\pi(\rho)), predicted by different partial Chiral restoration calculations. We show that the results obtained for shifts and widths are worse than if this modification were not implemented. On the other hand, we argue that in microscopic many body approaches for the pion selfenergy, based on effective Lagrangians, the mechanisms responsible for the change of fπf_\pi in the medium should be automatically incorporated. Therefore, the replacement of fπf_\pi by fπ(ρ)f_\pi(\rho) in the many body derivation of the microscopic potential would be inappropriate.
Note:
  • 10 pages, new comments and references added Report-no: FTUV-02-1202, IFIC-02-1202
  • pi: hadronic atom
  • symmetry: chiral
  • hadronic atom: width
  • potential
  • pi: decay constant
  • partial wave
  • pi: propagator
  • propagator: renormalization
  • effective Lagrangian
  • numerical calculations