Chiral Quark Dynamics [electronic resource] /

These notes give an introduction to the description of hadrons, i.e., mesons and baryons, within a quark model based on a chirally invariant quantum field theory. Emphasis is put on a didactic approach intended for graduate students with some background on functional integral techniques. Starting from QCD a motivation of a specific form of the effective quark interaction is given. Functional integral bosonization leads to a theory describing successfully meson properties. It possesses solitonic solutions which are identified as baryons. Via functional integral techniques a Faddeev equation for baryons describing them as bound states of a diquark and a quark is derived. Finally, a unification of these two complementary pictures of baryons is proposed.

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Main Authors:	Alkofer, Reinhard. author., Reinhardt, Hugo. author., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	Texto biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1995
Subjects:	Physics., Quantum physics., Elementary particles (Physics)., Quantum field theory., Quantum computers., Spintronics., Quantum Physics., Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics., Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.,
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-49454-6
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