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In-Medium Pion Valence Distribution Amplitude

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After a brief review of the quark-based model for nuclear matter, and some pion properties in medium presented in our previous works, we report new results for the pion valence wave function as well as the valence distribution amplitude in medium, which are presented in our recent article. We find that both the in-medium pion valence distribution and the in-medium pion valence wave function, are substantially modified at normal nuclear matter density, due to the reduction in the pion decay constant.

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This article belongs to the Topical Collection “Light Cone 2016”.

This work was partly supported by the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) of Brazil.

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Tsushima, K., de Melo, J.P.B.C. In-Medium Pion Valence Distribution Amplitude. Few-Body Syst 58, 85 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00601-017-1249-7

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