Published 1992 | Version v1
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Nucleons as skyrmions

  • 1. Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)
  • 2. TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada)

Description

Topics included in this discussion include the skymion, two-baryon systems, strangeness in the Skyrme model, and multibaryon systems. The Skyrme model has been used to provide a novel picture of the nucleon and other low-lying baryons. The baryon number conservation is realized as the topological stability of an extended meson field configuration. This picture fits the historical and current understanding of low-energy hadron dynamics supporting chiral symmetry, the low-energy theorems, the meson-exchange potentials, and the exchange currents. 112 refs., 3 figs., 1 tab

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Publishing Information

Publisher
Annual Reviews Inc.
Imprint Place
Palo Alto, CA (United States)
Imprint Title
Annual review of nuclear and particle science. Volume 42
Imprint Pagination
621 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 333-365.