Published January 15, 1996 | Version v1
Journal article

From chiral mean field to Walecka mean field and kaon condensation

  • 1. State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, NY (United States). Dept. of Physics
  • 2. Center for Theoretical Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742 (Korea, Republic of)
  • 3. Service de Physique Theorique, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex (France)

Description

A unified treatment of normal nuclear matter described by Walecka's mean field theory and kaon condensed matter described by chiral perturbation theory is proposed in terms of mean fields of an effective chiral Lagrangian. The BR scaling is found to play a key role in making the link between the ground state properties of nuclear matter and the fluctuation into the strangeness-flavor direction. A simple prediction for kaon condensation is presented. (orig.)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. A
Journal Volume
596
Journal Issue
3-4
Journal Page Range
p. 503-514.
ISSN
0375-9474
CODEN
NUPABL