Paul Sutcliffe University of Kent
Work with Richard Battye, Michael Atiyah, Steffen Krusch, Nick Manton. Skyrmions and the pion mass, Battye & Sutcliffe, Nucl. Phys. B705, 384 (2004). Skyrmions, instantons, mass and curvature, Atiyah & Sutcliffe, Phys. Lett. B605, 106 (2005). Spinning Skyrmions and the Skyrme parameters, Battye, Krusch & Sutcliffe, hep-th/
The Skyrme model. Skyrme parameters from spinning Skyrmions. Multi-Skyrmions; shells & crystals. New shapes for multi-Skyrmions. Alpha particle model & cubes. Conclusion.
Nonlinear pion theory: 3 parameters, Topological solitons (Skyrmions); Winding number, B, identified with Baryon number.
Use energy and length units of Rescaled pion mass, Two commonly used values;
B=1. Conserved quantities; spin J, and isospin I. Isospin rotation For B=1 Skyrmion, J=I. Adkins, Nappi & Witten (1983); rigid body approximation.
A problem with shells.
shell crystal
The Skyrmion version of this is configurations formed from B=4 cubes. B=12 Triangular symmetry. Are there 3 cubes here?
same orientation 90 0 twist lowers energy Colour Skyrmions using pion field direction
no twist, face in twist, edge in ? ?
Skyrme parameters should be changed from the values commonly used. A large pion mass changes the shapes of multi-Skyrmions. Symmetric shells are replaced by less symmetric non-spherical structures. Crystal chunks and cubes may play an important role. More field simulations currently in progress.