nLab baryon current

Idea

The conserved current whose charge is the number of baryons.

(Not actually conserved, generally, in the standard model of particle physics, due to the chiral anomaly. See also st baryogenesis.)

Related concepts

• Dirac current

References

General

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The WZW term of QCD chiral perturbation theory

The gauged WZW term of chiral perturbation theory/quantum hadrodynamics which reproduces the chiral anomaly of QCD in the effective field theory of mesons and Skyrmions:

General

The original articles:

• Julius Wess, Bruno Zumino, Consequences of anomalous Ward identities, Phys. Lett. B 37 (1971) 95-97 (spire:67330, doi:10.1016/0370-2693(71)90582-X)

• Edward Witten, Global aspects of current algebra, Nuclear Physics B Volume 223, Issue 2, 22 August 1983, Pages 422-432 (doi:10.1016/0550-3213(83)90063-9)

See also:

• O. Kaymakcalan, S. Rajeev, J. Schechter, Nonabelian Anomaly and Vector Meson Decays, Phys. Rev. D 30 (1984) 594 (spire:194756)

Corrections and streamlining of the computations:

• Chou Kuang-chao, Guo Han-ying, Wu Ke, Song Xing-kang, On the gauge invariance and anomaly-free condition of the Wess-Zumino-Witten effective action, Physics Letters B Volume 134, Issues 1–2, 5 January 1984, Pages 67-69 (doi:10.1016/0370-2693(84)90986-9))

• H. Kawai, S.-H. H. Tye, Chiral anomalies, effective lagrangians and differential geometry, Physics Letters B Volume 140, Issues 5–6, 14 June 1984, Pages 403-407 (doi:10.1016/0370-2693(84)90780-9)

• J. L. Mañes, Differential geometric construction of the gauged Wess-Zumino action, Nuclear Physics B Volume 250, Issues 1–4, 1985, Pages 369-384 (doi:10.1016/0550-3213(85)90487-0)

• Tomáš Brauner, Helena Kolešová, Gauged Wess-Zumino terms for a general coset space, Nuclear Physics B Volume 945, August 2019, 114676 (doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2019.114676)

See also

• Yasunori Lee, Kantaro Ohmori, Yuji Tachikawa, Revisiting Wess-Zumino-Witten terms (arXiv:2009.00033)

Interpretation as Skyrmion/baryon current:

• Jeffrey Goldstone, Frank Wilczek, Fractional Quantum Numbers on Solitons, Phys. Rev. Lett. 47, 986 (1981) (doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.47.986)

• Edward Witten, Current algebra, baryons, and quark confinement, Nuclear Physics B Volume 223, Issue 2, 22 August 1983, Pages 433-444 (doi:10.1016/0550-3213(83)90064-0)

• Gregory Adkins, Chiara Nappi, Stabilization of Chiral Solitons via Vector Mesons, Phys. Lett. 137B (1984) 251-256 (spire:194727, doi:10.1016/0370-2693(84)90239-9)

  (beware that the two copies of the text at these two sources differ!)

• Mannque Rho et al., Introduction, In: Mannque Rho et al. (eds.) The Multifaceted Skyrmion, World Scientific 2016 (doi:10.1142/9710)

Concrete form for $N$-flavor quantum hadrodynamics in 2d:

• C. R. Lee, H. C. Yen, A Derivation of The Wess-Zumino-Witten Action from Chiral Anomaly Using Homotopy Operators, Chinese Journal of Physics, Vol 23 No. 1 (1985) (spire:16389, pdf)

Concrete form for 2 flavors in 4d:

• Masashi Wakamatsu, On the electromagnetic hadron current derived from the gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten action, (arXiv:1108.1236, spire:922302)

Including light vector mesons

Concrete form for 2-flavor quantum hadrodynamics in 4d with light vector mesons included (omega-meson and rho-meson):

• Ulf-G. Meissner, Ismail Zahed, equation (6) in: Skyrmions in the Presence of Vector Mesons, Phys. Rev. Lett. 56, 1035 (1986) (doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.1035)

• Ulf-G. Meissner, Norbert Kaiser, Wolfram Weise, equation (2.18) in: Nucleons as skyrme solitons with vector mesons: Electromagnetic and axial properties, Nuclear Physics A Volume 466, Issues 3–4, 11–18 May 1987, Pages 685-723 (doi:10.1016/0375-9474(87)90463-5)

• Ulf-G. Meissner, equation (2.45) in: Low-energy hadron physics from effective chiral Lagrangians with vector mesons, Physics Reports Volume 161, Issues 5–6, May 1988, Pages 213-361 (doi:10.1016/0370-1573(88)90090-7)

• Roland Kaiser, equation (12) in: Anomalies and WZW-term of two-flavour QCD, Phys. Rev. D63:076010, 2001 (arXiv:hep-ph/0011377, spire:537600)

Including heavy scalar mesons

Including heavy scalar mesons:

specifically kaons:

• Curtis Callan, Igor Klebanov, equation (4.1) in: Bound-state approach to strangeness in the Skyrme model, Nuclear Physics B Volume 262, Issue 2, 16 December 1985, Pages 365-382 (doi10.1016/0550-3213(85)90292-5)

• Igor Klebanov, equation (99) of: Strangeness in the Skyrme model, in: D. Vauthrin, F. Lenz, J. W. Negele, Hadrons and Hadronic Matter, Plenum Press 1989 (doi:10.1007/978-1-4684-1336-6)

• N. N. Scoccola, D. P. Min, H. Nadeau, Mannque Rho, equation (2.20) in: The strangeness problem: An $SU(3)$ skyrmion with vector mesons, Nuclear Physics A Volume 505, Issues 3–4, 25 December 1989, Pages 497-524 (doi:10.1016/0375-9474(89)90029-8)

specifically D-mesons:

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specifically B-mesons:

• Mannque Rho, D. O. Riska, N. N. Scoccola, above (2.1) in: The energy levels of the heavy flavour baryons in the topological soliton model, Zeitschrift für Physik A Hadrons and Nuclei volume 341, pages343–352 (1992) (doi:10.1007/BF01283544)

Including heavy vector mesons

Inclusion of heavy vector mesons:

specifically K*-mesons:

• S. Ozaki, H. Nagahiro, Atsushi Hosaka, Equations (3) and (9) in: Magnetic interaction induced by the anomaly in kaon-photoproductions, Physics Letters B Volume 665, Issue 4, 24 July 2008, Pages 178-181 (arXiv:0710.5581, doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2008.06.020)

Including electroweak interactions

Including electroweak fields:

• J. Bijnens, G. Ecker, A. Picha, The chiral anomaly in non-leptonic weak interactions, Physics Letters B Volume 286, Issues 3–4, 30 July 1992, Pages 341-347 (doi:10.1016/0370-2693(92)91785-8)

• Gerhard Ecker, Helmut Neufeld, Antonio Pich, Non-leptonic kaon decays and the chiral anomaly, Nuclear Physics B Volume 413, Issues 1–2, 31 January 1994, Pages 321-352 (doi:10.1016/0550-3213(94)90623-8)

Discussion for the full standard model of particle physics:

• Jeffrey Harvey, Christopher T. Hill, Richard J. Hill, Standard Model Gauging of the WZW Term: Anomalies, Global Currents and pseudo-Chern-Simons Interactions, Phys. Rev. D77:085017, 2008 (arXiv:0712.1230)