The Changes in Properties of Hadrons in Nuclei and Nuclear Matter

Abstract

The changes of hadron properties in dense and/or hot matter are discussed in terms of effective chiral Lagrangians with the parameters of the theory scaled in a simple way. The phenomenologically successful Walecka model is identified as a mean field chiral Lagrangian with the scaled parameters. Kaon condensation and chiral restoration transitions can be described within the same mean field framework.

Comments: 14 pages, LATEX, 3 figures uuencoded; invited talk at INPC'95, Beijing, China; SNUTP-95-081