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New QCD Sum Rules for In-Medium Nucleons

Derek B. Leinweber, Xuemin Jin, R. J. Furnstahl

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/9511031

Abstract

New QCD sum rules for nucleons in nuclear matter are derived from a mixed correlation function of spin-1/2 and spin-3/2 interpolating fields. These sum rules allow a determination of the scalar self-energy of the nucleon independent of the poorly known four-quark condensates. An analysis of these new sum rules in concert with previous nucleon sum rules from spin-1/2 interpolators indicates consistency with the expectations of relativistic mean-field phenomenology. We find M* = 0.68 0.08 GeV and Σv = 0.31 0.06 GeV at nuclear matter saturation density.

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