Quark Models for Baryon-Baryon Interactions

  1. Ortega, P.G. 1
  2. Entem, D.R. 2
  3. Fernández, F. 2
  1. 1 Dpto. Física Fundamental, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
  2. 2 Grupo de Física Nuclear, IUFFyM, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Book:
Handbook of Nuclear Physics
  1. Tanihata, I. (ed. lit.)
  2. Toki, H. (ed. lit.)
  3. Kajino, T. (ed. lit.)

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 978-981-19-6344-5,  978-981-19-6345-2

Year of publication: 2023

Pages: 1761-1786

Type: Book chapter

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Abstract

Since the discovery of quarks, it has been a challenge to describe the nuclear force in terms of quark degrees of freedom. This is not an easy task because, at the scale of nuclear phenomenology, QCD is non-perturbative, and one has to resource to models that catch the most important properties of QCD. In this article, the constituent quark model for baryon-baryon interactions will be reviewed. The emphasis is on the foundations of the approach and the main features of the model. The origins of the short-range repulsion in the nuclear force and other baryonic interactions are discussed.