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A zero-mode quantization of the Skyrmion

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

In the semi-classical approach to the Skyrme model, nuclei are approximated by quantum mechanical states on a finite-dimensional space of field configurations; in zero-mode quantization this space is generated by rotations and isorotations. Here, simulated annealing is used to find the axially symmetric Skyrme configuration which extremizes the zero-mode quantized energy for the nucleon.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0509098,
  title  = {A zero-mode quantization of the Skyrmion},
  author = {Conor Houghton and Shane Magee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0509098},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

8 pages, typos corrected, version to appear in Phys. Lett. B

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