QCD Scales in Finite Nuclei

Friar, J. L.; Madland, D. G.; Lynn, B. W.

QCD Scales in Finite Nuclei

Authors

Friar, J. L.

Madland, D. G.

Lynn, B. W.

Description

The role of QCD scales and chiral symmetry in finite nuclei is examined. The Dirac-Hartree mean-field coupling constants of Nikolaus, Hoch, and Madland (NHM) are scaled in accordance with the QCD-based prescription of Manohar and Georgi. Whereas the nine empirically-based coupling constants of NHM span thirteen orders of magnitude, the scaled coupling constants are almost all {\it natural}, being dimensionless numbers of order one. We speculate that this result provides good evidence that QCD and chiral symmetry apply to finite nuclei.
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