Published June 29, 1992 | Version v1
Journal article

Skyrmions and the nuclear force

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6396 (United States)
  • 2. TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 2A3 (Canada)

Description

The derivation of the nucleon-nucleon force from the Skyrme model is reexamined. Starting from previous results for the potential energy of quasistatic solutions, we show that a calculation using the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, properly taking into account the mixing of nucleon resonances, leads to substantial central attraction. We obtain a potential that is in qualitative agreement with phenomenological potentials

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Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
68
Journal Issue
26
Journal Page Range
p. 3849-3852.
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO