Published July 15, 2010 | Version v1
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Relativistic collective coordinate quantization of solitons: Spinning Skyrmion

  • 1. Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502 (Japan)

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We develop a consistent relativistic generalization of collective coordinate quantization of field theory solitons. Our principle of introducing collective coordinates is that the equations of motion of the collective coordinates ensure those of the original field theory. We illustrate this principle with the quantization of spinning degrees of freedom of Skyrmion representing baryons. We calculate the leading relativistic corrections to the static properties of nucleons, and find that the corrections are non-negligible ones of 10% to 20%.

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
82
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 025017-025017.6
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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