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Véronique Bernard, Norbert Kaiser, Ulf-G. Meißner · 1 Jun 1995

We review the implications of the spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in QCD for processes involving one, two, or more nucleons.

Brian D. Serot, John Dirk Walecka · 1 Dec 1997

Quantum hadrodynamics (QHD) is a framework for describing the nuclear many-body problem as a relativistic system of baryons and mesons. Motivation is given for the utility of such an approach and for the importance of basing it on a local, Lorentz-invariant lagrangian density. Calculations of nuclear matter and finite nuclei in both renormalizable and nonrenormalizable,…

Pieter Maris, Craig D. Roberts · 1 Jun 2003

Dyson–Schwinger equations furnish a Poincaré covariant framework within which to study hadrons. A particular feature is the existence of a nonperturbative, symmetry preserving truncation that enables the proof of exact results. The gap equation reveals that dynamical chiral symmetry breaking is tied to the long-range behavior of the strong interaction, which is thereby constrained by…

Paul Romatschke · 1 Jan 2010

Starting with a brief introduction into the basics of relativistic fluid dynamics, I discuss our current knowledge of a relativistic theory of fluid dynamics in the presence of (mostly shear) viscosity. Derivations based on the generalized second law of thermodynamics, kinetic theory, and a complete second-order gradient expansion are reviewed. The resulting fluid dynamic equations…

Kenji Hara, Yang Sun · 1 Dec 1995

Most of the nuclei in the nuclear chart are deformed except for those in the vicinity of the magic numbers. It is difficult to treat such nuclei within the framework of the standard (spherical) shell model. On the other hand, the necessity for a proper quantum mechanical treatment of high-spin states has been steadily growing…