The effect of pion mass on Skyrme configurations
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Conor Houghton and Shane Magee, The effect of pion mass on Skyrme configurations, Europhysics Letters, 77, 2007, 11001 - 11004Download Item:
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In the Skyrme model, atomic nuclei are identified with solitonic configurations. If the pion mass is set to zero, these configurations are spherical shells of energy with a fullerene-like appearance and are well approximated by a simple rational map ansatz. Using simulated annealing, we have calculated minimum energy configurations for non-zero pion mass and have found that they are less round and are less well approximated by the rational map ansatz.
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Author: HOUGHTON, CONOR JAMES
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