Model Independent Tests of Skyrmions and Their Holographic Cousins

Aleksey Cherman, Thomas D. Cohen, and Marina Nielsen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 022001 – Published 10 July 2009

Abstract

We describe a new exact relation for large Nc QCD for the long-distance behavior of baryon form factors in the chiral limit. This model-independent relation is used to test the consistency of the structure of several baryon models. All 4D semiclassical chiral soliton models satisfy the relation, as does the Pomarol-Wulzer holographic model of baryons as 5D Skyrmions. However, remarkably, we find that the holographic model treating baryons as instantons in the Sakai-Sugimoto model does not satisfy the relation.

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  • Received 24 March 2009

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.022001

©2009 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Aleksey Cherman* and Thomas D. Cohen

  • Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742-4111, USA

Marina Nielsen

  • Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, C.P. 66318, 05389-970 São Paulo, SP, Brazil

  • *alekseyc@physics.umd.edu
  • cohen@physics.umd.edu
  • mnielsen@if.usp.br

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Vol. 103, Iss. 2 — 10 July 2009

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