The nucleon and the nuclear force in the context of effective theory and path-integral methods

Abstract

The nucleon structure and the nuclear force are investigated in the context of the non-perturbative path-integral method of hadronization. Starting from a microscopic quark-diquark model, the nucleon is generated as a relativistic bound state and an effective chiral meson-nucleon Lagrangian is derived. Many of the nucleon physical properties are studied using a theory of at most two free parameters.

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures. To appear in the proceedings of Pan American Advanced Studies Institute on New States of Matter in Hadronic Interactions (PASI2002), Campos do Jordao, Brazil, 7-18 Jan 2002