Nucleons and Isobars at finite density ($\rho$) and temperature (T)

Abstract

The importance of studying matter at high $\rho$ increases as more astrophysical data becomes available from recently launched spacecrafts. The importance of high T studies derives from heavy ion data. In this paper we set up a formalism to study the nucleons and isobars with long and short range potentials non-pertubatively, bosonizing and expanding semi-classically the Feyman integrals up to one loop. We address the low density, finite T problem=A0 first, the case relevant to heavy ion collisions, hoping to adresss the high density case later. Interactions change the nucleon and isobar numbers at different $\rho$ and T non-trivially.

Comments: 23 pages, 9 figures, 25 .eps files. submitted to European Physical Journal A