Chiral Extension Research Articles

Chiral nontopological solitons with perturbative quantum pions.

We investigate chiral extensions of a broad class of nontopological soliton bag models. Chiral symmetry is restored in a nonlinear realization through the introduction of an elementary pion field. We show in particular that it is consistent to treat the pions as a perturbative quantum field, as is done in the cloudy-bag model. The cloudy-bag model is recovered as a limiting case. A careful comparison is made between predictions of chiral extensions of the Friedberg-Lee and the Nielsen-Patkos color-dielectric nontopological soliton models and the cloudy-bag model. Once the overall distance scale is fixed we find relative insensitivity to the detailed choice of nontopological soliton parameters. We investigate two versions of chiral nontopological solitons, analogous to the surface- and volume-coupled cloudy-bag model, and discuss their relation to current algebra.