Eur. Phys. J. A (2003) 18: 363-365
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2002-10238-x

Surface pion condensation in finite nuclei

¹ Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP), Osaka University, 567-0047, Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan
² RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, 351-0105, Wako, Saitama, Japan

^* e-mail: toki@rcnp.osaka-u.ac.jp

Abstract

We discuss here the possible occurrence of surface pion condensation in finite nuclei. We show the argument for this possibility by the recent findings in few-body calculations and the spin-flip experiments. We show the calculated results on various N = Z nuclei using the relativistic mean-field theory with a pion.