Conveners
Session VI
- Catalina Curceanu (LNF - INFN Frascati)
We review new insights into baryon structure in relation to the quark model. These insights into baryon structure and its potential for modification in a nuclear medium are then used to motivate the derivation of an energy density functional in the quark meson coupling model. Recent results for nuclear structure obtained in this approach will be presented.
Spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry in the QCD vacuum is thought to be one of the causes of hadron masses. Many experimental challenges have been made to elucidate the mechanism by precisely measuring the hadron mass in nuclear matter, which is expected to be reduced by the partial restoration of chiral symmetry, known as the nuclear matter effect. To date, however, the mechanism has not...
Pionless Effective Field Theory at Leading order proved to be valuable approach in a study of different properties of $s$-shell $\Lambda$- and $\Lambda \Lambda$- hypernuclei. Recently, it was demonstrated that the inclusion of next-to-leading order (NLO) corrections substantially improve predictive power of this theory in a theoretical study of few-body $A \leq5$ nuclear scattering. In my talk...
Charmed $\Lambda_c$ hypernuclei are investigated in the framework of the deformed Skyrme-Hartree-Fock approach. Their ground-state bulk properties, single-particle energy levels, potential energy curves, as well as the existence limit of charmed hypernuclei are studied, with particular regard to the effects of deformation. $\Lambda_c$ $p$ states are found to be strongly bound, in particular in...