Chiral quark dynamics
By: Reinhard Alkofer, Hugo Reinhardt.
Contributors: Reinhardt, Hugo, 1949-
Series: Lectures notes in physics.; m33
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 114
Subjects: Hadrons.; Quarks.; Particles (Nuclear physics) -- Chirality.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [110]-112).