Quarks, baryons and chiral symmetry / Atsushi Hosaka, Hiroshi Toki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hosaka, Atsushi.

Contributor:

Toki, H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quarks.

Baryons.

Particles (Nuclear physics)--Chirality.

Particles (Nuclear physics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (389 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; River Edge, N.J. : World Scientific, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book describes baryon models constructed from quarks, mesons and chiral symmetry. The role of chiral symmetry and of quark model structure with SU(6) spin-flavor symmetry are discussed in detail, starting from a pedagogic introduction. Emphasis is placed on symmetry aspects of the theories. As an application, the chiral bag model is studied for nucleon structure, where important methods of theoretical physics, mostly related to the semiclassical approach for a system of strong interactions, are demonstrated. The text is more practical than formal; tools and ideas are explained in detail

Contents:

Contents ; Preface ; Chapter 1 INGREDIENTS OF THE STANDARD MODEL ; 1.1 Strong Interaction - QCD ; 1.2 Electroweak Theory ; 1.3 CKM Mass Matrix ; Chapter 2 SYMMETRIES AND WAVE FUNCTIONS ; 2.1 Why is Symmetry Important? ; 2.2 Symmetry Current ; 2.3 SU(2) ; 2.4 SU(3)

2.5 Multi-Particle States 2.6 Product-States ; 2.7 Quark Model Wave Functions ; Chapter 3 CHIRAL SYMMETRY ; 3.1 Lorentz Group and Chiral Fermions ; 3.2 Chiral Group ; 3.3 Spontaneous Breaking of Chiral Symmetry ; Chapter 4 THE SIGMA MODEL ; 4.1 Linear Sigma Model

4.2 Non-Linear Sigma Model 4.3 Fermion Field ; Chapter 5 CHIRAL BAG MODEL ; 5.1 The MIT Bag Model ; 5.2 The Little Bag Model ; 5.3 The Skyrme Model ; 5.4 The Chiral Bag Model ; 5.5 Chiral Casimir Effects ; 5.6 The Hedgehog Solution ; Chapter 6 NUCLEON PROPERTIES

6.1 Semiclassical Method 6.2 Isospin Rotation of the Hedgehog Solution ; 6.3 Axial Properties ; 6.4 Non-rigid Quantization of the Skyrmion ; 6.5 Electromagnetic Properties ; 6.6 Chiral Bag with Vector Mesons ; Chapter 7 LARGE-Nc BARYONS ; 7.1 Introduction

7.2 General Counting Rules 7.3 Counting Rules for Solitons ; 7.4 Large-Nc Algebra for Baryons ; 7.5 Finite Nc ; 7.6 Other Representations and gA; 7.7 Meson-Baryon System ; Chapter 8 EXCITED BARYONS ; 8.1 Systematics in Baryon Masses ; 8.2 Quarks in a Deformed Oscillator Potential

8.3 Electromagnetic Transitions

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-379) and index.

ISBN:

9786611951580

9781281951588

1281951587

9789812810045

9812810048

OCLC:

815754689