Rho-meson mass in light nuclei

Abstract

The quark-meson coupling (QMC) model is applied to a study of the mass of the $\rho$-meson in helium and carbon nuclei. The average mass of a $\rho$-meson formed in ${}^{3,4}$He and ${}^{12}$C is expected to be around 730, 690 and 720 MeV, respectively.

Comments: 14 pages with 3-ps files and 2 tables, submitted to Phys. Rev. C (Brief report section)