2008

Pion electromagnetic charge radii and rho-meson mass shift at finite density

Nam, Seung-il, Kim, Hyun-Chul

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We investigate the pion electromagnetic charge radii and mass dropping of the rho meson at finite density.

  • We first calculate the pion charge radii within the framework of the nonlocal chiral quark model from the instanton vacuum both at zero and finite densities.
  • In order to relate the change of the pion charge radius to that of the rho-meson mass at finite density, we employ the vector-meson dominance for the pion electromagnetic form factor.
  • It turns out that the pion charge radius is getting larger as the quark chemical potential increases.

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