Abnormal nuclear states and vacuum excitation
- 1 April 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Reviews of Modern Physics
- Vol. 47 (2), 267-275
- https://doi.org/10.1103/revmodphys.47.267
Abstract
We examine the theoretical possibility that at high densities there may exist a new type of nuclear state in which the nucleon mass is either zero or nearly zero. The related phenomenon of vacuum excitation is also discussed.Keywords
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