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A. Ramos

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arXiv2001

Finite temperature effects on the antikaon optical potential

By solving the Bethe-Goldstone equation, we have obtained the $\bar{K}$ optical potential from the $\bar{K}N$ effective interaction in nuclear matter at T=0. We have extended the model by incorporating finite temperature effects in order to adapt our calculations to the experimental conditions in heavy-ion collisions. In the rank of densities ($0-2ρ_0$), the finite temperature $\bar{K}$ optical potential shows a smooth behaviour if we compare it to the T=0 outcome. Our model has also been applied to the study of the ratio between $K^+$ and $K^-$ produced at GSI with $T$ around 70 MeV. Our results point at the necessity of introducing an attractive $\bar{K}$ optical potential.

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arXiv2001

Novel Weak Decays in Doubly Strange Systems

The strangeness-changing ($ΔS = 1$) weak baryon-baryon interaction is studied through the nonmesonic weak decay of double-$Λ$ hypernuclei. Besides the usual nucleon-induced decay $ΛN \to N N$ we discuss novel hyperon-induced decay modes $ΛΛ\to ΛN$ and $ΛΛ\to ΣN$. These reactions provide unique access to the exotic $ΛΛ$K and $ΛΣ$K vertices which place new constraints on Chiral Pertubation Theory ($χ$PT) in the weak SU(3) sector. Within a meson-exchange framework, we use the pseudoscalar $π,η,K$ octet for the long-range part while parametrizing the short-range part through the vector mesons $ρ, ω, K^*$. Realistic baryon-baryon forces for the $S=0,-1$ and -2 sectors account for the strong interaction in the initial and final states. For $^6_{ΛΛ}$He the new hyperon-induced decay modes account for up to 4% of the total nonmesonic decay rate. Predictions are made for all possible nonmesonic decay modes.

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arXiv2001

Dynamical meson-baryon resonances with chiral Lagrangians

The s-wave meson-baryon interaction is studied using the lowest-order chiral Lagrangian in a unitary coupled-channels Bethe-Salpeter equation. In the strangeness $S=-1$ sector the low-energy $K^- p$ dynamics leads to the dynamical generation of the $Λ(1405)$ as a ${\bar K}N$ state, along with a good description of the $K^- p$ scattering observables. At higher energies, the $Λ(1670)$ is also found to be generated dynamically as a $K Ξ$ quasibound state for the first time. For strangeness S=0, it is the $S_{11}(1535)$ resonance that emerges from the coupled-channels equations, leading to a satisfactory description of meson-baryon scattering observables in the energy region around the $S_{11}(1535)$. We speculate on the possible dynamical generation of $Ξ$ resonances within the chiral $S=-2$ sector as ${\bar K} Λ$ or ${\bar K} Σ$ quasibound states.

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arXiv2001

Final State Interactions in Hypernuclear Decay

We present an update of the One-Meson-Exchange (OME) results for the weak decay of s- and p-shell hypernuclei (Ref. Phys. Rev. C {\bf 56}, 339 (1997)), paying special attention to the role played by final state interactions between the emitted nucleons. The present study also corrects for a mistake in the inclusion of the $K$ and $K^*$ exchange mechanisms, which substantially increases the ratio of neutron-induced to proton-induced transitions, $Γ_n/Γ_p$. With the most up-to-date model ingredients, we find that the OME approach is able to describe very satisfactorily most of the measured observables, including the ratio $Γ_n/Γ_p$.

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arXiv2001

Test of phi renormalization in nuclei through phi photoproduction

We propose an experimental procedure to find out the medium modifications of the $ϕ$ meson. The reaction is inclusive $ϕ$ photoproduction in nuclei, looking for $K^+ K^-$ pairs from the $ϕ$ decay with total momentum smaller than 100-150 $MeV/c$, which are made possible at energies of present laboratories from center of mass $ϕ$ backward production and the help of Fermi motion. We have conducted a many body calculation of the mass distribution of the $ϕ$ adapted to the experimental set up of a recent JLAB experiment where the backwards $ϕ$ photoproduction has been measured. Using recent results for the in medium properties of the $ϕ$, we find that the width of the invariant mass distribution for photoproduction on medium to heavy nuclei is larger than the free $ϕ$ width by a factor of two or more.

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arXiv2001

Chiral unitary approach to the K^- deuteron scattering length

Starting from a recent model where the Kbar N amplitudes are evaluated from the chiral Lagrangians using a coupled channel unitary method, we evaluate here the scattering length for K^- deuteron scattering. We find that the double scattering contribution is very large compared to the impulse approximation and that the charge exchange contribution of this rescattering is as large as the sequential K^- scattering on the two nucleons. Higher order rescattering corrections are evaluated using coupled channels with K^- and Kbar^0 within the integral form of the fixed centre approximation to the Faddeev equations. The higher order corrections involving intermediate pions and hyperons are found negligible.

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arXiv2001

Chiral unitary theory: application to nuclear problems

In this talk we briefly describe some basic elements of chiral perturbation theory, $χPT$, and how the implementation of unitarity and other novel elements lead to a better expansion of the $T$ matrix for meson meson and meson baryon interactions. Applications are then done to the $ ππ$ interaction in nuclear matter in the scalar and vector channels, antikaons in nuclei and $K^-$ atoms, and how the $ϕ$ meson properties are changed in a nuclear medium.

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arXiv2001

Antikaons in nuclei and dense nuclear matter

We present recent progress on the properties of antikaons in nuclei and dense nuclear matter as obtained from two {\bar K}N interaction models: one based on the lowest-order meson-baryon chiral lagrangian and the other derived from a meson-exchange picture.

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arXiv2000

Hyperon effects on the properties of $β$-stable neutron star matter

We present results from Brueckner-Hartree-Fock calculations for $β$-stable neutron star matter with nucleonic and hyperonic degrees of freedom employing the most recent parametrizations of the baryon-baryon interaction of the Nijmegen group. Only $Σ^-$ and $Λ$ are present up to densities $\sim 7ρ_0$. The corresponding equations of state are then used to compute properties of neutron stars such as masses and radii.

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arXiv2000

Decay rates of medium-heavy Lambda-hypernuclei within the Propagator Method

The Lambda decay rates in nuclei has been calculated in ref. 1 using the Propagator Method in Local Density Approximation. We have studied the dependence of the widths (including the one for the two-body induced process Lambda NN -> NNN) on the N-N and Lambda-N short range correlations. Using a reasonable parametrization of these correlations, as well as realistic nuclear densities and Lambda wave functions, we reproduce, for the first time, the experimental non-mesonic widths from medium to heavy hypernuclei.

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arXiv2000

Chiral Unitary Approach to the Kaon Nucleus Interaction and Kaonic Atoms

We review recent work on various topics related to the modification of kaon properties in nuclei. After a brief exposition of the kaon-nucleon and kaon-nucleus interaction, results from the application to kaonic atoms, renormalization of the f0 and a0 scalar resonances in nuclei and phi decay in the nucleus are shown.

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arXiv2000

Chiral Unitary Approach To The NNpi, NNeta Couplings For The N*(1535) Resonance

Using a chiral unitary model in which the negative parity nucleon resonance $N^\ast \equiv N^\ast(1535)$ is generated dynamically by means of the Bethe Salpeter equation with coupled meson baryon channels in the $S = 0$ sector, we have obtained the $π^0 N^\ast N^\ast$ and $ηN^\ast N^\ast$ couplings. The $π^0 N^\ast N^\ast$ coupling has smaller strength and the same sign as the $π^0 N N$ coupling. This rules out the mirror assignment of chiral symmetry where the ground state nucleon $N$ and the negative parity resonance $N^\ast$ are envisaged as chiral partners in the baryon sector.

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arXiv2000

Phi decay in nuclei

We have studied the decay of the ϕmeson in nuclear matter by taking into account the renormalization of the K and \bar{K} mesons in the medium. We separate the contribution of the total width into different reaction channels, K\bar{K} and KYh, the latter ones associated with the ϕN \to K^+ Y reactions. We find a total width at normal nuclear matter density of about 22 MeV, considerably larger than the free one.

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arXiv2000

Hyperon-hyperon interactions and properties of neutron matter

We present results from Brueckner-Hartree-Fock calculatons for beta stable neutron star matter with nucleonic and hyperonic degress degrees of freedom, employing the most recent parametrizations of the baryon-baryon interaction of the Nijmegen group. It is found that the only strange baryons emergin in beta stable matter up to total barionic densities of 1.2 fm^-3 are $Σ^-$ and $Λ$. The corresponding equations of state are then used to compute properties of neutron stars such as masses and radii.

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arXiv2000

The Longitudinal and Transverse responses in inclusive electron scattering within the RPA framework

The longitudinal and transverse nuclear responses to inclusive electron scattering reactions are analyzed within the Random Phase Approximation (RPA) framework. Several residual interactions are considered and it is shown that the exchange terms in the RPA make very difficult to find an effective residual interaction capable of reproducing simultaneously the quasielastic peak of both the longitudinal and transverse responses. By means of a simplified model it is illustrated that the residual interaction used in a ring approximation must fulfill some restrictions in order to qualitatively reproduce the full RPA results.

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arXiv2000

Chiral Unitary approach to meson-meson and meson-baryon interactions and nuclear applications

We report on recent nonperturbative techniques that combine the information of chiral Lagrangians (with and without resonances) with unitarity in coupled channels and other requirements of the S-matrix theory of the strong interactions. As a result, the region of applicability of such techniques is much larger than the one of Chiral Perturbation Theory allowing one to study also resonance physics. Applications to meson-meson and meson-baryon scattering, as well as to problems where pairs of mesons or a meson and a baryon appear in the initial or final state are shown. Implications in several nuclear problems are also discussed.

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arXiv1999

Properties of β-stable neutron star matter with hyperons

We present results from many-body calculations for β-stable neutron star matter with nucleonic and hyperonic degrees of freedom, employing the most recent parametrizations of the baryon-baryon interaction of the Nijmegen group. It is found that the only strange baryons emerging in β-stable matter up to total baryonic densities of 1.2 fm^{-3} are Σ^- and Λ. The corresponding equations of state are thence used to compute properties of neutron stars such as the masses, moments of inertia and radii. We also study the possibility of forming a hyperon superfluid and discuss its implications for neutron stars.

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arXiv1999

Photoproduction of meson and baryon resonances in a chiral unitary approach

By means of a coupled channel non-perturbative unitary approach, it is possible to extend the strong constrains of Chiral Perturbation Theory to higher energies. In particular, it is possible to reproduce the lowest lying resonances in meson-meson scattering up to 1.2 GeV using the parameters of the O(p^2) and O(p^4) Chiral Lagrangian. The meson baryon sector can also be tackled along similar lines. We report on an update of these results showing some examples of photon induced reactions where the techniques have been recently applied.

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