Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1999-07-29
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Invited review for INSA-Book-2000 38 pages, 4 figures included via epsfig
Scientific paper
We review the Skyrme model approach which treats baryons as solitons of an effective meson theory. We start out with a historical introduction and a concise discussion of the original two flavor Skyrme model and its interpretation. Then we develop the theme, motivated by the large $N_C$ approximation of QCD, that the {\it effective} Lagrangian of QCD is in fact one which contains just mesons of all spins. When this Lagrangian is (at least approximately) determined from the meson sector it should then yield a zero parameter description of the baryons. We next discuss the concept of chiral symmetry and the technology involved in handling the three flavor extension of the model at the collective level. This material is used to discuss properties of the light baryons based on three flavor meson Lagrangians containing just pseudoscalars and also pseudoscalars plus vectors. The improvements obtained by including vectors are exemplified in the treatment of the {\it proton spin puzzle}.
Schechter Joseph
Weigel Herbert
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