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Probing Chiral Symmetry of Nucleons by Threshold    Production

Atsushi HosakaDaisuke JidoMakoto Oka

subject

PhysicsChiral anomalyParticle physicsPhysics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)MesonHigh Energy Physics::LatticeHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologyNuclear TheoryYukawa potentialParity (physics)PionIntermediate stateHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentNuclear ExperimentChiral symmetry breakingNucleon

description

Double meson production of eta and pi mesons in the threshold region is investigated in order to determine chiral properties of the nucleon. The eta can be used as a probe for the negative parity nucleon N ∗ ≡ N ∗ (1535), produced in the intermediate state. The coupling of the low energy pion in the final state is then used to extract the sign of the Yukawa coupling, gπN∗N ∗ , which distinguishes the two realizations of chiral symmetry, naive and mirror, for the nucleon.

https://doi.org/10.1143/ptp.106.823