What does a change in the quark condensate say about restoration of chiral symmetry in matter?

dc.creatorBirse, Michael C.
dc.date1996-02-09
dc.date1996-03-20
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:14:36Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:14:36Z
dc.descriptionThe contribution of nucleons to the quark condensate in nuclear matter includes a piece of first order in $m_π$, arising from the contribution of low-momentum virtual pions to the $πN$ sigma commutator. Chiral symmetry requires that no term of this order appears in the $NN$ interaction. The mass of a nucleon in matter thus cannot depend in any simple way on the quark condensate alone. More generally, pieces of the quark condensate that arise from low-momentum pions should not be associated with partial restoration of chiral symmetry.
dc.description9 pages (RevTeX). Definition of effective mass changed; numerical value of leading nonanalytic term corrected, along with various misprints
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9602266
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9602266
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.C53:2048-2051,1996
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevC.53.R2048
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/192125
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.subjectNuclear Theory
dc.titleWhat does a change in the quark condensate say about restoration of chiral symmetry in matter?
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