| Title: | The effect of pion mass on Skyrme
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| Authors: | Conor Houghton & Shane Magee, 2006 |
| Abstract: | 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 which are well approximated by a simple rational map ansatz. We have numerically calculated minimum energy configurations for non-zero pion mass and have found that they become less round and are less well approximated by the rational map ansatz. |
| ICHEC Project: | Simulated annealing of light nuclei in the Skyrme model |
| Publication: | Physics Letters B |
| Status: | Submitted |
