https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2002-10272-8
Chiral-symmetry restoration in clustered hadronic matter
Instituto de Física Teórica, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rua Pamplona, 145, 01405-900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
* e-mail: gkrein@ift.unesp.br
Chiral-symmetry restoration is usually discussed in the context of quark matter, a system of deconfined quarks. However, many systems like stable nuclei and neutron stars have quarks confined within nucleons. In the present paper we use a Fermi sea of three-quark clusters instead of a Fermi sea of deconfined quarks to investigate the in-medium quark condensate. We find that an enhancement of the chiral breaking in clustered matter as claimed in the literature is not a consequence of the clustering but rather dependent on the microscopic model dynamics.
© Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer-Verlag, 2003
