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Anomaly-induced charges in baryons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-05-30 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We show that quantum chiral anomaly of QCD in magnetic backgrounds induces a novel structure of electric charge inside baryons. To illustrate the anomaly effect, we employ the Skyrme model for baryons, with the anomaly-induced gauged Wess-Zumino term (\pi_0 + (multi-pion)) E_i B_i. Due to this term, the Skyrmions giving a local pion condensation ((\pi_0 + (multi-pion)) \neq 0) necessarily become a local charge source, in the background magnetic field B_i. We present detailed evaluation of the anomaly effects, and calculate the total induced charge, for various baryons in the magnetic field.

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@article{arxiv.1109.0020,
  title  = {Anomaly-induced charges in baryons},
  author = {Minoru Eto and Koji Hashimoto and Hideaki Iida and Takaaki Ishii and Yu Maezawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.0020},
  year   = {2013}
}

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18 pages, 12 figures

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