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A simple mass-splitting mechanism in the Skyrme model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-04-18 v1

Abstract

It is shown that the addition of a single chiral symmetry breaking term to the standard omega meson variant of the nuclear Skyrme model can reproduce the proton-neutron mass difference.

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@article{arxiv.1803.11216,
  title  = {A simple mass-splitting mechanism in the Skyrme model},
  author = {J. M. Speight},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.11216},
  year   = {2018}
}

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8 pages, 2 figures