Constraining the strangeness content of the nucleon by measuring the ϕ meson mass shift in nuclear matter
Constraining the strangeness content of the nucleon by measuring the ϕ meson mass shift in nuclear matter
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通过测量核物质中的介子质量位移来限制核子的奇异含量
DOI:
10.1103/physrevd.90.094002
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发表时间:
2014
影响因子:
5
通讯作者:
Keisuke Ohtani
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作者:
Philipp Gubler;Keisuke Ohtani
The behavior of the $\ensuremath{\phi}$ meson at finite density is studied, making use of a QCD sum rule approach in combination with the maximum entropy method. It is demonstrated that a possible mass shift of the $\ensuremath{\phi}$ in nuclear matter is strongly correlated to the strangeness content of the nucleon, which is proportional to the strange sigma term, ${\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{sN}={m}_{s}⟨N|\overline{s}s|N⟩$. Our results furthermore show that, depending on the value of ${\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{sN}$, the $\ensuremath{\phi}$ meson could receive both a positive or negative mass shift at nuclear matter density. We find that these results depend only weakly on potential modifications of the width of the $\ensuremath{\phi}$ peak and on assumptions made on the behavior of four-quark condensates at finite density. To check the stability of our findings, we take into account several higher order corrections to the operator product expansion, including ${\ensuremath{\alpha}}_{s}$-corrections, terms of higher order in the strange quark mass, and terms of higher twist that have not been considered in earlier works.