Herbert Weigel (auth.)3540754350, 9783540754350
This concise research monograph introduces and reviews the concept of chiral soliton models for baryons.
In these models, baryons emerge as (topological) defects of the chiral field. The many applications shed light on a number of bayron properties, ranging from static properties via nucleon resonances and deep inelastic scattering to even heavy ion collisions. As far as possible, the theoretical investigations are confronted with experiment. Conceived to bridge the gap between advanced graduate textbooks and the research literature, this volume also features a number of appendices to help nonspecialist readers to follow in more detail some of the calculations in the main text.
Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages I-IX
Introduction and Motivation….Pages 1-4
Quark Flavor Interaction….Pages 5-26
Self-consistent Soliton….Pages 27-42
The Skyrme Model….Pages 43-64
Soliton Quantization in Flavor SU(2)….Pages 65-83
Soliton Quantization in Flavor SU(3)….Pages 85-112
Baryon Properties….Pages 113-145
Meson–Baryon Scattering in Chiral Soliton Models….Pages 147-180
Exotic Baryons….Pages 181-206
Multi-baryon Systems in the Skyrme Model….Pages 207-230
Back Matter….Pages 271-274
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