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Skyrmions with low binding energies

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-07-21 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Nuclear binding energies are investigated in two variants of the Skyrme model: the first replaces the usual Skyrme term with a term that is sixth order in derivatives, and the second includes a potential that is quartic in the pion fields. Solitons in the first model are shown to deviate significantly from ans\"atze previously assumed in the literature. The binding energies obtained in both models are lower than those obtained from the standard Skyrme model, and those obtained in the second model are close to the experimental values.

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@article{arxiv.1501.05455,
  title  = {Skyrmions with low binding energies},
  author = {Mike Gillard and Derek Harland and Martin Speight},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.05455},
  year   = {2015}
}

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22 pages, 11 figures v2: minor changes to text and one figure

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