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Deformed Skyrmions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The spherically symmetric hedgehog ansatz used in the description of the skyrmion is believed to be inadequate for the rotational states such as the nucleon (I=J=1/2) and the Delta (I=J=3/2) due to centrifugal forces. We study here a simple alternative: an oblate spheroidal solution which leads to lower masses for these baryons. As one might expect, the shape of the solution is flatter as one increases I=J whether the size of the soliton is allowed to change or not.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9710369,
  title  = {Deformed Skyrmions},
  author = {L. Marleau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9710369},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

4 pages (REVTEX), no figures, To be published in the proceedings of A CRM-Fields-CAP Summer Workshop in Theoretical Physics: Solitons, Properties, Dynamics, Interactions and Applications, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 20-26 Jul 1997