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Chiral Quark Dynamics

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  • © 1995

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Authors:
  1. Reinhard Alkofer

    1. Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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  2. Hugo Reinhardt

    1. Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics Monographs (LNPMGR, volume 33)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-4

  3. Reduction of Low-Energy QCD to QFD

    Pages 5-16

  4. The Effective Meson Theory

    Pages 17-48

  5. Baryons as Chiral Solitons

    Pages 49-84

  6. Baryons as Bound States of Diquarks and Quarks

    Pages 85-99

  7. On the Description of Baryons: An Outlook

    Pages 100-101

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 102-115
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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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  • Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

    Reinhard Alkofer, Hugo Reinhardt

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