Recent progress on the chiral unitary approach to meson meson and meson baryon interactions

We report on recent progress on the chiral unitary approach, analogous to the effective range expansion in Quantum Mechanics, which is shown to have a much larger convergence radius than ordinary chiral perturbation theory, allowing one to reproduce data for meson meson interaction up to 1.2 GeV. Applications to physical processes so far unsuited for a standard chiral perturbative approach are presented. Results for the extension of these ideas to the meson baryon sector are discussed, together with applications to kaons in a nuclear medium and $K^-$ atoms.

Short range correlations in the weak decay of Lambda hypernuclei.

The differences found in the relativistic and nonrelativistic methods used in the literature to account for short range nuclear correlations in the decay of \ensuremath{\Lambda} hypernuclei are analyzed. By means of a schematic microscopic model for the origin of correlations, the appropriate method to include them in nuclear processes is derived and is found to be the same one used in the nonrelativistic approach. The differences do not stem from relativistic effects but from the improper implementation of the correlations in the relativistic approach, which leads to several pathologies as shown in the paper. General formulas are given to evaluate the nonmesonic decay width of finite hyper…

SU(3) Chiral approach to meson and baryon dynamics

We report on recent progress on the chiral unitary approach, which is shown to have a much larger convergence radius than ordinary chiral perturbation theory, allowing one to reproduce data for meson meson interaction up to 1.2 GeV and meson baryon interaction up to the first baryonic resonances. Applications to physical processes so far unsuited for a standard chiral perturbative approach are presented, concretely the K^- p\to\Lambda(1405)\gamma reaction and the N^\ast (1535)N^\ast(1535)\pi and \eta couplings.

WEAK DECAY OF Λ–HYPERNUCLEI

The nonmesonic weak decay of L hypernuclei is studied in a shell model framework. A complete strangeness-changing weak LN!NN transition potential, based on one boson exchange, is constructed by including the exchange of the pseudoscalar mesons p, K, h as well as the vector mesons r,v, and K*, whose weak-coupling constants are obtained from soft meson theorems and SU~6! w . General expressions for nucleons in arbitrary shells are obtained. The transition matrix elements include realistic LN short-range correlations and NN final state interactions based on the Nijmegen baryon-baryon potential. The decay rates are found to be especially sensitive to the inclusion of the strange mesons K and K*…

Short range correlations in the weak decay of Λ hypernuclei