High Energy Physics Journal Club
Report on: Does nuclear matter bind at large N_c?
by Rajiv Gavai
Friday, February 25, 2011
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Authors: Luca Bonanno, Francesco Giacosa Abstract: The existence of nuclear matter at large $N_c$ is investigated in the framework of effective hadronic models of the Walecka type. This issue is strongly related to the nucleon-nucleon attraction in the scalar channel, and thus to the nature of the light scalar mesons. Different scenarios for the light scalar sector correspond to different large $N_c$ scaling properties of the parameters of the hadronic models. In all realistic phenomenological scenarios for the light scalar field(s) responsible for the attraction in the scalar channel it is found that nuclear matter does not bind in the large $N_c$ world. We thus conclude that $N_c = 3$ is in this respect special: 3 is fortunately not large at all and allows for nuclear matter, while large $N_c$ would not. |
Participants | Arka Banerjee; Debasish Banerjee; Raju Bathija; Rajeev Bhalerao; Biplob Bhattacharjee; Sudhansu Biswal; Saumen Datta; Amol Dighe; Rajiv V. Gavai; Diptimoy Ghosh; Monoranjan Guchait; Sourendu Gupta; Vinod Joshi; Sridhar K.; Nikhil Karthik; Padmanath M.; Nilmani Mathur; Shiraz Minwalla; Subroto Pal; Sreerup Raychaudhuri; Sayantan Sarma; Anurag Tripathi |
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