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Title: Interplay of quark and meson degrees of freedom in some models of hadrons

Thesis/Dissertation ·
OSTI ID:6404004

Various baryon and meson models are considered. An approximate method of boosting the bag is extended to the pion-surrounded nucleon bag and developed for the calculation of low-energy nucleon form factors. The method is useful for the computation of the induced pseudoscalar form factor where both the inclusion of the pion field and the non-vanishing momentum transfer are necessary. In 1 + 1 dimension, with the help of the cell model of the vacuum state, they construct a topological bag which interpolates continuously between a two-phase model and a Sine-Gordon soliton. The cell picture of the vacuum state is used in 3 + 1 dimension to construct a model for pions and kaons as Goldstone bosons of spontaneously broken chiral symmetry. The model is extended to incorporate massive quarks. The quark mass dependence of and f/sub K/ is calculated without resorting to chiral perturbation theory. A topological chiral two-phase baryon model with omega-meson stabilizing term is studied and compared with a closely related model where the omega-meson has been eliminated in the limit of infinite mass and coupling constant.

Research Organization:
State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook (USA)
OSTI ID:
6404004
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Thesis (Ph. D.)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English