The Skyrmion Skyrmion interaction and the meson exchange model for the NN potential

Abstract

The properties of nucleon-nucleon (NN) potentials derived from the Skyrme model are investigated compared to those of typical One-Boson-Exchange (OBE) models, For that purpose the NN as well as the nucleon-antinucleon (N¯N) potentials are evaluated for the isoscalar central channel, the isovector spin channel, and the isovector tensor channel. A comparison of NN and N¯N interactions allows a separation into terms with positive and negativeG-parity and therefore a detailed comparison with the properties of the OBE model. This analysis is performed using the classical Lagrangian of the Skyrme model and considering an extension of this Lagrangian by a term of sixth order, which has recently been proposed. The results indicate that the extended Lagrangian yields an interaction which is quite consistent with the OBE picture. The extended model, however, is much more sensitive to the values of the parameters and the approximations being used for the evaluation of the field for two baryons.