Nuclear medium modifications of theNNinteraction via quasielastic(p→,p′)and(p→,n→)scattering

Reactions Involving the Nuclear Spin Modifications of H3 and H2; Implications for the Interstellar Medium

Medium Modifications of Vector Mesons and NA60

We confront different models for medium modifications of the electromagnetic correlation function to recent dimuon spectra from the NA60 collaboration for central In-In collisions at the CERN-SPS. In the low-mass region (M.1.0 GeV), we evaluate medium modifications of the spectral properties of ρ-, ωand φ-mesons. In the intermediate-mass region (M>1.0 GeV), we employ schematic models for the mi...

In-Medium Modifications of Hadron Properties

The in-medium modifications of hadron properties are briefly discussed. We restrict the discussion to the lattice QCD calculations for the hadron masses, screening masses, decay constants and wave functions. We review the progress made so far and describe how to broaden its horizon.

Hunting Medium Modifications of the Chiral Condensate

With QCD sum rule evaluations, spectral changes of hadrons inside nuclear matter are considered, which shed light on QCD condensates and thus on the non-perturbative structure of the QCD ground state. For some light quark configurations, ω meson and nucleon, the relevance of four-quark condensates is compared; the D meson as a representative of heavy-light quark systems is also briefly discussed.

Quarks in nuclear medium

Using the quark-meson coupling (QMC) model we study nuclear matter from the point of view of quark degrees of freedom. As the nucleon model we adopt the MIT bag model and the relativistic constituent quark model, where a square well and harmonic oscillator potentials are used to confine the quarks. We introduce the Lorentz-vector type confining potential as well as the Lorentz-scalar type one i...