Download or read book Chiral Soliton Models for Baryons written by Herbert Weigel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-07 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise research monograph introduces and reviews the concept of chiral soliton models for baryons. In these models, baryons emerge as (topological) defects of the chiral field. The many applications shed light on a number of bayron properties, ranging from static properties via nuclear resonances to even heavy ion collisions. This volume also features a number of appendices to help nonspecialist readers to follow in more detail some of the calculations in the main text.