From QCD sum rules to relativistic nuclear physics

Abstract
Nucleon self-energies in nuclear matter are studied by analyzing the correlator of nucleon interpolating fields using QCD sum-rule methods. Large Lorentz scalar and vector self-energies arise naturally, and are comparable to the optical potentials of Dirac phenomenology. The key phenomenological inputs are the baryon density and the value of the nucleon σ term.

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