Recent topics of mesic atoms and mesic nuclei -- $ϕ$ mesic nuclei exist ?--

Abstract

We study $ϕ$-meson production in nuclei to investigate the in-medium modification of the $ϕ$-meson spectral function at finite density. We consider (${\bar p},ϕ$), ($γ,p$) and ($π^-,n$) reactions to produce a $ϕ$-meson inside the nucleus and evaluate the effects of the medium modifications to reaction cross sections. The structures of the bound states, $ϕ$-mesic nuclei, are also studied. For strong absorptive interaction cases, we need to know the spectrum shape in a wide energy region to deduce the properties of $ϕ$.

Talk given at EXA08, Vienna, September 2008. To be published in the Proceedings, Hyperfine Interactions. 6 pages, 6 figures