The Skyrme Model : Fundamentals Methods Applications

Vladimir G. Makhankov

ISBN 10: 3642846726 / ISBN 13: 9783642846724

Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The December 1988 issue of the International Journal of Modern Physics A is dedicated to the memory of Tony Hilton Royle Skyrme. It contains an informative account of his life by Dalitz and Aitchison's reconstruction of a talk by Skyrme on the origin of the Skyrme model. From these pages, we learn that Tony Skyrme was born in England in December 1922. He grew up in that country during a period of increasing economic and political turbulence in Europe and elsewhere. In 1943, after Cambridge, he joined the British war effort in making the atomic bomb. He was associated with military projects throughout the war years and began his career as an academic theoretical physicist only in 1946. During 1946-61, he was associated with Cambridge, Birmingham and Harwell and was engaged in wide-ranging investigations in nuclear physics. It was this research which eventually culminated in his studies of nonlinear field theories and his remarkable proposals for the description of the nucleon as a chiral soliton. In his talk, Skyrme described the reasons behind his extraordinary sug gestions, which when first made must have seemed bizarre. According to him, ideas of this sort go back many decades and occur in the work of Sir William Thomson, who later became Lord Kelvin. Skyrme had heard of Kelvin in his youth.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Skyrme Model : Fundamentals Methods Applications
• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3642846726
• ISBN 13: 9783642846724
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu

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Synopsis

The Skyrme Model is the model of hadron matter proposed by the British physicist T.H.R. Skyrme in 1961. It is now regarded the simplest model for an adequate description of hadron structure and interaction. Since no summarizing reference book has been written up to now, researchers in high energy, nuclear and particle physics will find here the first thorough description of this model.