Project Details
Baryons within an effective chiral model with three flavours
Applicant
Professor Dr. Dirk H. Rischke
Subject Area
Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, Fields
Term
from 2014 to 2019
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 262113216
The aim of this project is to construct a simple, yet reliable effective model of hadronic interactions, which fulfills the basic requirements of the underlying QCD Lagrangian (chiral symmetry and dilatation invariance) and which comprehensively describes the vacuum phenomenology of mesons and baryons up to about 2 GeV in mass. To this end, we will extend the so-called extended Linear Sigma Model (eLSM) in the mesonic sector by including the light scalar mesons below 1 GeV in mass and, most importantly, in the baryon sector by including non-strange and strange baryon resonances with spin J=1/2 and J=3/2. Such an approach offers a solid theoretical basis to describe many phenomena of low-energy hadron physics in the mesonic and the baryonic sectors within a unique framework. Then, we apply this improved version of the eLSM to study elementary hadronic reactions of the form Nucleon + Nucleon into Nucleon + Nucleon + X, where X denotes a meson or a photon, and Nucleon + Photon into Nucleon + X as well as similar reactions with open strangeness. These investigations provide vital heoretical input and support for many experiments which focus their attention on studying these reactions.
DFG Programme
Research Grants
Participating Person
Professor Dr. Francesco Giacosa