1999/11/15 by Hong Shen, H. Shen, H. Toki
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Nuclear physics research studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevc.61.045205
published as Phys.Rev. C61 (2000) 045205 · LaTeX, 16 pages, 6 figures
arxiv created 1999/11/15 · openalex publication_date 2000/03/17 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We study nuclear matter and finite nuclei in terms of the quark mean field (QMF) model, in which we describe the nucleon using the constituent quark model. The meson mean fields, in particular the \ensuremathσ meson, created by other nucleons act on quarks inside a nucleon and change the nucleon properties in nuclear medium. The QMF model predicts an increasing size of the nucleon as well as a reduction of the nucleon mass in the nuclear environment. The present model is applied to study the properties of finite nuclei after fixing all the parameters by the nuclear matter properties, and it is found to give satisfactory results on the nuclear properties.