Acta Physica Polonica B

Vol. 39, No. 2, February 2008, page 295


Studying Medium Modifications of Mesons in Elementary Reactions

V. Metag

Experimental searches for medium-modifications of vector mesons in photon and proton induced nuclear reactions are reviewed. Results on \rho , \omega , and \Phi  mesons are presented. At normal nuclear matter density, the \omega and  \Phi  meson are found to be lowered in mass by 9--14\% and 3.5\%, respectively. Compared to the free particle properties increases in widths by factors of about 16 and 3.6, respectively, are observed. For the \rho meson conflicting results on in-medium mass shifts and broadening have been reported.

PACS numbers: 13.60.--r, 13.60.Le, 14.40.--n, 25.20.Lj



 
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