Chiral solitons in nuclei: saturation, EMC effect, and Drell-Yan experiments.
The chiral quark-soliton model of the nucleon contains a mechanism for an attractive interaction between nucleons. This, along with the exchange of vector mesons between nucleons, is used to compute the saturation properties of infinite nuclear matter. This provides a new way to assess the effects of the nuclear medium on a nucleon that includes valence and sea quarks. We show that the model simultaneously describes the nuclear EMC effect and the related Drell-Yan experiments.
Smith
Jason R
JR
Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1560, USA.
Miller
Gerald A
GA