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Title: Vector mesons as a Higgs phenomenon

Journal Article · · Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (USA)
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  1. School of Physics and Astronomy Beverly and Raymond Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978 (Israel)

We propose an approach to couple vector mesons to the Skyrme model. We show that classically the model exhibits stable hedgehog baryons. The classically stable solutions are quantized. The nucleon-{Delta} splitting is found to be in good agreement with experimental results.

OSTI ID:
6694136
Journal Information:
Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (USA), Vol. 42:1; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English