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SU(3) String-Flip Potential Models and Nuclear Matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-22 v1

Abstract

A Monte Carlo model for nuclear matter using a many body SUc(3)SU_c(3) string flip potential, with fixed colour, is investigated. The potential is approximated by considering colour singlet flux tube formations that connect only three quarks at a time. The model is compared with a similar string flip model, proposed by Horowitz and Piekarewicz \cite{kn:HorowitzI}, that approximates higher order flux tube formations by connecting quarks in colour singlet chains. The former model gives an EMC nucleon ``swelling'' effect, whereas the latter gives an opposite effect. Possible discrepancies between the two models are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9312328,
  title  = {SU(3) String-Flip Potential Models and Nuclear Matter},
  author = {M. Boyce and P. J. S. Watson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9312328},
  year   = {2009}
}

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15 pages with figures included using epsf, postscript version of paper avialable with figures via anonymous ftp from ftp.physics.carleton.ca in /pub/theory/watson/ocipc9317.ps, OCIP/C-93-17