Quarks Bound by Chiral Fields: The Quark Structure of the Vacuum and of Light Mesons and Baryons

by Georges Ripka

The structure of light hadrons is dominated by the spontaneously broken chiral symmetry of the strongly interacting (QCD) vacuum. Low energy properties of light hadrons can be described in terms of quarks interacting with chiral fields. This book gives a comprehensive account of a large class of models which describe the restoration of chiral symmetry at high temperature and density, the effective interactions between quarks, mesons as solutions of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019851784X
• ISBN13: 9780198517849
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"