Classically Spinning Skyrmions

Journal Article · Thu Sep 22 00:00:00 EDT 2011 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3636815· OSTI ID:21611610

Battye, Richard A; Haberichter, Mareike ^[1]

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1. Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL (United Kingdom)

Skyrmions arise as topological soliton solutions in the Skyrme model which has been shown to be a low energy effective theory of QCD in the large N{sub C} limit. If quantized suitably, they can be used to describe structure and properties of nucleons and nuclei. We argue that the semiclassical rigid-body quantization, commonly used in the literature, has several shortcomings and that removing this simplication may result in a more accurate description of nucleons and nuclei. We present an extensive numerical study of spinning, arbitrarily deforming Skyrmions of topological charge B = 1-4.

• OSTI ID: 21611610
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 1389; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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