Nucleon described by the chiral soliton in the chiral quark soliton model

Abstract

We give a survey of recent development and applications of the chiral quark soliton model (also called the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio soliton model) with $N_f$=2 and $N_f$=3 quark flavors for the structure of baryons. The model is an effective chiral quark model obtained from the instanton liquid model of the quantum chromodynamics. Mesons appear as quark-antiquark excitations and baryons arise as non-topological solitons with three valence quarks and a polarized Dirac sea. In this model, a wide variety of observables of baryons is considered.

Comments: A talk given in the international conference on "Quark Lepton Nuclear Physics" in Osaka, Japan from May 20 to 23 in 1997. Proceedings will be published in Nuclear Physics A. (5 pages + figures)