The effect of pion mass on Skyrme configurations
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v3
Abstract
In the Skyrme model, atomic nuclei are identified with solitonic configurations. If the pion mass is set to zero, these configurations are spherical shells of energy with a fullerene-like appearance and are well approximated by a simple rational map ansatz. Using simulated annealing, we have calculated minimum energy configurations for non-zero pion mass and have found that they are less round and are less well approximated by the rational map ansatz.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0602227,
title = {The effect of pion mass on Skyrme configurations},
author = {Conor Houghton and Shane Magee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0602227},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
6 pages, 3 figures; new data added, clarifications and typo corrections made; version to appear in Europhysics Letters