{ "id": "1308.6476", "version": "v3", "published": "2013-08-29T14:14:09.000Z", "updated": "2014-08-20T09:16:19.000Z", "title": "Dense baryonic matter in conformally-compensated hidden local symmetry: Vector manifestation and chiral symmetry restoration", "authors": [ "Yong-Liang Ma", "Masayasu Harada", "Hyun Kyu Lee", "Yongseok Oh", "Byung-Yoon Park", "Mannque Rho" ], "journal": "Physical Review D 90, 034015 (2014)", "categories": [ "hep-ph", "nucl-th" ], "abstract": "We find that, when the dilaton is implemented as a (pseudo-)Nambu-Goldstone boson using a conformal compensator or \"conformon\" in a hidden gauge symmetric Lagrangian written to $O(p^4)$ from which baryons arise as solitons, namely, skyrmions, the vector manifestation and chiral symmetry restoration at high density predicted in hidden local symmetry theory --- which is consistent with Brown-Rho scaling --- are lost or sent to infinite density. It is shown that they can be restored if in medium the behavior of the $\\omega$ field is taken to deviate from that of the $\\rho$ meson in such a way that the flavor $U(2)$ symmetry is strongly broken at increasing density. The hitherto unexposed crucial role of the $\\omega$ meson in the structure of elementary baryon and multibaryon systems is uncovered in this work. In the state of half-skyrmions to which the skyrmions transform at a density $n_{1/2}^{} \\gtrsim n_0^{}$ (where $n_0^{}$ is the normal nuclear matter density), characterized by the vanishing (space averaged) quark condensate but nonzero pion decay constant, the nucleon mass remains more or less constant at a value $\\gtrsim$ 60 \\% of the vacuum value indicating a large component of the nucleon mass that is not associated with the spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry. We discuss its connection to the chiral-invariant mass $m_0^{}$ that figures in the parity-doublet baryon model.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2014-05-19T12:28:09.000Z", "abstract": "We find that, when the dilaton is implemented as a (pseudo) Nambu-Goldstone boson using conformal compensator or \"conformon\" in hidden gauge symmetric Lagrangian written to $O(p^4)$ from which baryons arise as solitons, namely, skyrmions, the vector manifestation and chiral symmetry restoration at high density predicted in hidden local symmetry theory -- which is consistent with Brown-Rho scaling -- are lost or sent to infinite density. It is shown that they can be restored if in medium the behavior of the $\\omega$ field is taken to deviate from that of the $\\rho$ meson in such a way that the flavor $U(2)$ symmetry is strongly broken at increasing density. The hitherto unexposed crucial role of the $\\omega$ meson in the structure of elementary baryon and multibaryon systems is uncovered in this work. In the state of half-skyrmions to which the skyrmions transform at a density $n_{1/2}^{} \\gtrsim n_0^{}$ (where $n_0^{}$ is the normal nuclear matter density), characterized by the vanishing (space averaged) quark condensate but nonzero pion decay constant, the nucleon mass remains more or less constant at a value $\\gtrsim$ 60 \\% of the vacuum value indicating a large component of the nucleon mass that is not associated with the spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry. We discuss its connection to the chiral invariant mass $m_0^{}$ that figures in the parity-doublet baryon model.", "comment": "16 pages, 6 eps figures. The parameter \"a\" independence of the medium modified pion decay constant is proved. More discussions and references are given", "journal": null, "doi": null }, { "version": "v3", "updated": "2014-08-20T09:16:19.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "12.39.Dc", "12.39.Fe", "21.65.-f", "21.65.Jk" ], "keywords": [ "chiral symmetry restoration", "conformally-compensated hidden local symmetry", "dense baryonic matter", "vector manifestation", "hidden gauge symmetric lagrangian written" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "publisher": "APS", "journal": "Physical Review D", "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevD.90.034015", "year": 2014, "month": "Aug", "volume": 90, "number": 3, "pages": "034015" }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 16, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "inspire": 1251566, "adsabs": "2014PhRvD..90c4015M" } } }