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Tensor Coupling and Vector Mesons in Dense Nuclear Matter

Abhee Kanti Dutt- Mazumder, Binayak Dutta-Roy, Anirban Kundu, Triptesh De

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/9506018

Abstract

The effects of magnetic interaction between vector mesons and nucleons on the propagation (mass and width) of the ρ-meson in particular moving through very dense nuclear matter is studied and the modifications, qualitative and quantitative, due to the relevant collective modes (zero-sound and plasma frequencies) of the medium discussed. It is shown that the ρ-mesons produced in high-energy nuclear collisions will be longitudinally polarized in the region of sufficiently dense nuclear matter, in the presence of such an interaction.

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