The Chromodielectric Soliton Model: Quark Self-energy and Hadron Bags

Wilets, Larry; Hartmann, Stephan and Tang, Ping (April 1997): The Chromodielectric Soliton Model: Quark Self-energy and Hadron Bags. In: Phys. Rev. C, Vol. 55: pp. 2067-2077

Abstract

The chromodielectric soliton model is Lorentz and chirally invariant. It has been demonstrated to exhibit dynamical chiral symmetry breaking and spatial confinement in the locally uniform approximation. We here study the full nonlocal quark self-energy in a color-dielectric medium modeled by a two-parameter Fermi function. Here color confinement is manifest. The self-energy thus obtained is used to calculate quark wave functions in the medium which, in turn, are used to calculate the nucleon and pion masses in the one-gluon-exchange approximation. The nucleon mass is fixed to its empirical value using scaling arguments; the pion mass (for massless current quarks) turns out to be small but nonzero, depending on the model parameters.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Form of publication: Postprint
• Faculties: Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Science > Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP); Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Science > Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) > Philosophy of Physics; Physics
• Subjects: 500 Science > 530 Physics
• Language: English