Splitting of the neutron and proton electric polarizabilities in a hedgehog model

Dec, 1991
5 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 283 (1992) 22-26
  • Published: 1992
Report number:
  • DOE-ER-40322-144,
  • MDDP-PP-92-130

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
Proton and neutron proper (static) electric polarizabilities, α n and α p , are calculated in a chiral soliton model with quarks and mesons. Semiclassical methods ( 1 N c expansion, cranking, linear response theory) are used. We find α n > α p , and the splitting effect is of the order of 1 N c . Its magnitude, 5.4×10 10−4 fm, agrees with recent experimental data. The average nucleon po larizability is of the order of N c . The numerical value of this quantity obtained from our semiclassical method is roughly a factor of three larger than the experimental value. This is because the contribution of pion-Δ intermediate states is artificially enhanced in hedgehog models.
  • n: polarizability
  • p: polarizability
  • polarizability: electric
  • partial wave analysis
  • model: chiral
  • quark
  • field equations: soliton
  • effective Lagrangian
  • approximation: semiclassical
  • numerical calculations