QCD and strongly coupled gauge theories: challenges and perspectives

N Brambilla, S Eidelman, P Foka, S Gardner… - The European Physical …, 2014 - Springer
We highlight the progress, current status, and open challenges of QCD-driven physics, in
theory and in experiment. We discuss how the strong interaction is intimately connected to a …

Strange quark matter and compact stars

F Weber - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2005 - Elsevier
Astrophysicists distinguish between three different kinds of compact stars. These are white
dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes. The former contain matter in one of the densest forms …

Hadronic and electromagnetic probes of hot and dense nuclear matter

W Cassing, EL Bratkovskaya - Physics Reports, 1999 - Elsevier
We review the constraints imposed by the spontaneously broken chiral symmetry of the QCD
vacuum on the hadron properties at finite temperature T and baryon density ρB. A …

Nuclei in a chiral SU (3) model

P Papazoglou, D Zschiesche, S Schramm… - Physical Review C, 1999 - APS
Nuclei can be described satisfactorily in a nonlinear chiral SU (3) framework, even with
standard potentials of the linear σ model. The condensate value of the strange scalar meson …

Kaon production in heavy ion reactions at intermediate energies

C Fuchs - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2006 - Elsevier
The article reviews the physics related to kaon and antikaon production in heavy ion
reactions at intermediate energies. Chiral dynamics predicts substantial modifications of the …

Chiral unitary approach to meson-meson and meson-baryon interactions and nuclear applications

JA Oller, E Oset, A Ramos - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2000 - Elsevier
We report on recent nonperturbative techniques that combine the information of chiral
Lagrangians (with and without resonances) with unitarity in coupled channels and other …

Evidence for a soft nuclear equation-of-state from kaon production in heavy-ion collisions

C Sturm, I Böttcher, M Dȩbowski, A Förster, E Grosse… - Physical Review Letters, 2001 - APS
The production of pions and kaons has been measured in 197 Au+ 197 Au collisions at
beam energies from 0.6 to 1. 5 A GeV with the kaon spectrometer at SIS/GSI. The K+ meson …

The properties of K in the nuclear medium

A Ramos, E Oset - Nuclear Physics A, 2000 - Elsevier
The self-energy of the K− meson in nuclear matter is calculated in a self-consistent
microscopic approach, using a K ̄ N interaction obtained from the lowest-order meson …

Nucleon and hadron structure changes in the nuclear medium and the impact on observables

K Saito, K Tsushima, AW Thomas - Progress in Particle and Nuclear …, 2007 - Elsevier
We study the effect of hadron structure changes in a nuclear medium using the quark–
meson coupling (QMC) model. The QMC model is based on a mean field description of non …

Collective flow in heavy-ion collisions

N Herrmann, JP Wessels… - Annual Review of Nuclear …, 1999 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract This chapter presents an experimental overview of collective flow phenomena in
heavy-ion collisions in the incident energy regime from 100 AMeV to 160 AGeV. The …