Relation between the mass modification of the heavy-light mesons and the chiral symmetry structure in dense matter

TL;DR

This paper investigates how the masses of heavy-light mesons change with density in nuclear matter and how these changes relate to the underlying chiral symmetry structure, using mean field models including sigma and omega mesons.

Contribution

It demonstrates the influence of omega and sigma mesons on heavy-light meson masses and links mass differences to chiral symmetry restoration in dense matter, using two specific nuclear matter models.

Findings

Omega meson affects meson and antiparticle masses oppositely.

Mass difference between chiral partners correlates with sigma mean field.

Chiral symmetry restoration reflected in meson mass behavior.

Abstract

We point out that the study of the density dependences of the masses of heavy-light mesons give some clues to the chiral symmetry structure in nuclear matter. We include the omega meson effect as well as the sigma meson effect at mean field level on the density dependence of the masses of heavy-light mesons with chiral partner structure. It is found that the omega meson affects the masses of the heavy-light mesons and their antiparticles in the opposite way, while it affects the masses of chiral partners in the same way. This is because the omega meson is sensitive to the baryon number of the light degrees included in the heavy-light mesons. We also show that the mass difference between chiral partners is proportional to the mean field of sigma, reflecting the partial restoration of chiral symmetry in the nuclear matter. In addition to the general illustration of the density dependence of the heavy-light meson masses, we consider two concrete models for nuclear matter, the parity doublet model and skyrmion crystal model in the sense of mean field approximation.