Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

MIT bag model with chiral solitons

Journal Article · · Phys. Rev. D; (United States)

A chiral-invariant version of the MIT bag model is solved numerically including the (sigma,..pi..,quark) interactions of the chiral-soliton model based on the Gell-Mann--Levy theory of hidden chiral symmetry. Rafelski's virial theorem is extended to the case of bagged quarks and provides a check of the numerical solutions. For strong meson-quark coupling, the bag plays almost no role and we recover a description of the nucleon similar to that of Birse and Banerjee. In the opposite limit, where the bag-confined quarks interact weakly with the sigma and ..pi.. mesons, we have a picture similar to the cloudy-bag model. Consideration of the pion-nucleon sigma commutator favors the latter picture.

Research Organization:
Bonner Nuclear Laboratories, Physics Department, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251
OSTI ID:
5714298
Journal Information:
Phys. Rev. D; (United States), Journal Name: Phys. Rev. D; (United States) Vol. 33:9; ISSN PRVDA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English