Properties of Hadrons in the Nuclear Medium

Abstract

This review is devoted to the discussion of hadron properties in the nuclear medium and its relation to the partial restoration of chiral symmetry. Special attention is given to disentangle in-medium effects due to conventional many-body interactions from those due to the change of the chiral condensate. In particular, we shall discuss medium effects on the Goldstone bosons (pion, kaon and eta), the vector mesons (rho, omega, phi), and the nucleon. Also, for each proposed in-medium effect the experimental consequence and results will be reviewed.

Comments: 43 pages, 8 figures, uses epsf-style file. To appear in Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. Vol 47