Nuclear Matter with Quark-Meson Coupling I: Comparison of Nontopological Soliton Models
Nuclear Theory
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
A system of nontopological solitons interacting through scalar and vector meson exchange is used to model nuclear matter. The models studied are of the Friedberg-Lee type, which exhibit dynamical bag formation due to the coupling of quarks to a scalar composite gluon field. It is shown that the chiral chromodielectric model gives the best fit to the empirical data. The presence of the scalar meson guarantees saturation and an increase of the proton charge radius with nuclear density consistent with the EMC effect.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-th/9910050,
title = {Nuclear Matter with Quark-Meson Coupling I: Comparison of Nontopological Soliton Models},
author = {Nir Barnea and Timothy S. Walhout},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-th/9910050},
year = {2007}
}
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Latex, 23 pages, 8 figures