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Skyrmions and the pion mass

Battye, Richard A., Sutcliffe, Paul M. (2005) Skyrmions and the pion mass. Nuclear Physics B, 705 (1-2). pp. 384-400. ISSN 0550-3213. (doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2004.11.018) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:7978)

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2004.11.018

Abstract

We present numerical evidence that suggests the introduction of a nonzero pion mass might dramatically affect the structure of minimal energy skyrmions. It appears that the shell-like skyrmions which are the minima when the pions are massless can fail to be minimal energy bound states for particular baryon numbers, with a strong dependence upon the value of the pion mass. The effects of a pion mass may include the replacement of shell-like configurations with crystal chunks and the loss of shell-like bound states with baryon numbers five and eight; which is in agreement with expectations based on real nuclei. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2004.11.018
Uncontrolled keywords: Rational Maps; Model; Nuclei
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science)
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science
Depositing User: Judith Broom
Date Deposited: 05 Sep 2008 13:44 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:45 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/7978 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Sutcliffe, Paul M..

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