Chiral quark-soliton model in the Wigner-Seitz approximation - art. no. 055201

In this paper we study the modification of the properties of the nucleon in the nucleus within the quark-soliton model. This is a covariant, dynamical model, which provides a nonlinear representation of the spontaneously brok en SU(2)(L)xSU(2)(R) symmetry of QCD. The effects of the nuclear medium are accounted for by using the Wigner-Seitz approximation and therefore reduci ng the complex many-body problem to a simpler single-particle problem. We f ind a minimum in the binding energy at finite density, a change in the isos calar nucleon radius, and a reduction of the in-medium pion decay constant. The latter is consistent with a partial restoration of chiral symmetry at finite density, which is predicted by other models.