Chiral quark dynamics /

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 fr...

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Main Author: Alkofer, Reinhard, 1960-
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Reinhardt, Hugo, 1949-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : Springer, [1995]
Series:Lecture notes in physics. Monographs ; 33.
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 115 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9783540494546 (electronic bk.)
3540494545 (electronic bk.)
ISSN:0940-7677 ;