Skyrmions in the Skyrme model revisited

Viet Ai Nguyen, Khanh Duy Nguyen

Published 2013-09-05, updated 2013-09-06Version 2

The possible boundary value problems of the skyrmions are reexamined in the original Skyrme model with two new viewpoints. The first one suggests to replace the infinity boundary point by the finite radius R, which is related to the density of the surrounding nuclear matter. The second viewpoint suggests to combine the global analysis with the numerical computation to give better results by avoiding the errors. It is interesting that the half integer topological skyrmions do exist in the model. Finally, the static properties of all possible skyrmions are calculated with the model parameters Subscript[F, \[Pi]] = 186 MeV, Subscript[m, \[Pi]]= 138 MeV and 1.57 < e < 4.17. The baryon masses are found to be too high compared to the experimental values, while the mass splitting between them is too small. On the other hand, the isoscalar radii and the axial coupling constant can be fitted with the experimental data with an error of 20% within the Balachandra's bound.