PREDICTING THE PROTON MASS FROM PI-PI-SCATTERING DATA

Authors

JF Donoghue, University of Massachusetts AmherstFollow
Eugene Golowich, University of Massachusetts - AmherstFollow
BR Holstein, University of Massachusetts AmherstFollow

Publication Date

1984

Journal or Book Title

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Abstract

We relate experimental information on ππ scattering to tree-level effective chiral Lagrangians. The result is of a form similar to that used in Skyrme-type models of the proton, where the nucleons are described as topologically stable solitons of the chiral fields. In such models, one can express the proton mass in terms of measured scattering data, with the result Mp=880±300 MeV. We interpret this as a consistency test for the Skyrme models.

Comments

Published version is located at http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v53/i8/p747_1

Pages

747-750

Volume

53

Issue

8

Recommended Citation

Donoghue, JF; Golowich, Eugene; and Holstein, BR, "PREDICTING THE PROTON MASS FROM PI-PI-SCATTERING DATA" (1984). PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. 206.
Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umass.edu/physics_faculty_pubs/206