nLab hadron

Idea

In QCD a bound state of quarks via the strong nuclear force.

Binding two quarks: meson,

Binding three quarks: baryon,

Binding four quarks: tetraquark.

Properties

Computation via lattice QCD

Comparison of light hadron masses as seen in accelertator experiment and in lattice QCD-computer simulation (from Fodor-Hoelbling 12)

Conceptualization and computation in AdS/QCD

In the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model for strongly coupled QCD via an intersecting D-brane model, the hadrons in QCD correspond to string-theoretic-phenomena in an ambient bulk field theory on an approximately anti de Sitter spacetime:

1. the mesons (bound states of 2 quarks) correspond to open strings in the bulk, whose two endpoints on the asymptotic boundary correspond to the two quarks;

2. baryons (bound states of $N_c$ quarks) appear in two different but equivalent (Sugimoto 16, 15.4.1) guises:

   1. as wrapped D4-branes with $N_c$ open strings connecting them to the D8-brane

      (Witten 98b, Gross-Ooguri 98)

   2. as skyrmions

      (Sakai-Sugimoto 04, section 5.2, Sakai-Sugimoto 05, section 3.3, see Bartolini 17).

For review see Sugimoto 16, also Rebhan 14, around (18).

graphics grabbed from Sugimoto 16

This produces baryon mass spectra with moderate quantitative agreement with experiment (HSSY 07):

graphics grabbed from Sugimoto 16

For more see at hadron Kaluza-Klein theory.

Related concepts

• hadron current

• confinement

  • chiral perturbation theory

  • quark bag model, Cheshire cat principle

  • vector meson dominance

• quark-hadron duality

• proton spin crisis

• flavour anomaly

• hadron supersymmetry

• D-term

References

General

• Claude Amsler, The Quark Structure of Hadrons: An Introduction to the Phenomenology and Spectroscopy, Lecture Notes in Physics 949 (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-98527-5)

See also:

• Wikipedia, Hadron

Discussion in a general context of bound states:

• Paul Hoyer, Bound states – from QED to QCD, Lectures at “Mini-school on theoretical methods in particle physics” at the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Edinburgh on 30 September to 4 October 2013 (arXiv:1402.5005)

• Paul Hoyer, Journey to the Bound States (arXiv:2101.06721)

On the issue of hadron mass (confinement):

• Minghui Ding, Craig D. Roberts, Sebastian M. Schmidt, Emergence of Hadron Mass and Structure lbrack;arXiv:2211.07763]

List of hadrons discovered at the LHC experiment:

• Patrick Koppenburg for the LHCb collaboration: List of hadrons observed at the LHC (2021) [pdf, webpage, cds:2749030]

Walecka hadrodynamics with nucleon fields

On quantum hadrodynamics (relativivist effective field theory of nuclear physics, coupling mesons and nucleons) in the sense of the Walecka model, hence with nucleons appearing as explicit fields (as opposed to being solitonic Skyrmions in the pion field as in chiral perturbation theory).

Precursor:

• Hans-Peter Duerr, Relativistic Effects in Nuclear Forces, Phys. Rev. 103, 469 (1956) (doi:10.1103/PhysRev.103.469)

The original Walecka model (QHD-I model), with nucleons coupled to sigma-mesons and omega-mesons:

• John Dirk Walecka, A Theory of highly condensed matter, Annals Phys. 83 (1974) 491 (spire:91609, dpi:10.1016/0003-4916(74)90208-5)

Inclusion into the Walecka model also of the pion and the rho-meson (the QHD-II model):

• Brian Serot, A relativistic nuclear field theory with $\pi$ and $\rho$ mesons, Physics Letters B Volume 86, Issue 2, 24 (1979), Pages 146-150 (doi:10.1016/0370-2693(79)90804-9)

• T Matsui, Brian Serot, The pion propagator in relativistic quantum field theories of the nuclear many-body problem, Annals of Physics Volume 144, Issue 1, November 1982, Pages 107-167 (doi:10.1016/0003-4916(82)90106-3)

Further discussion of these models:

• S. A. Chin, A relativistic many-body theory of high density matter, Annals of Physics Volume 108, Issue 2, October 1977, Pages 301-367 (doi:10.1016/0003-4916(77)90016-1)

• Brian Serot, John Dirk Walecka, The Relativistic Nuclear Many Body Problem, Adv. Nucl. Phys. 16 (1986) 1-327 (spire:207866)

• Brian Serot, Quantum hadrodynamics, Reports on Progress in Physics, Volume 55, Number 11 (1992) (doi:10.1088/0034-4885/55/11/001)

• Brian Serot, John Dirk Walecka, Chiral QHD with vector mesons, Acta Phys. Polon. B 23 (1992) 655-679 (spire:343513)

• Maciej Nowak, Mannque Rho, Ismail Zahed, Chiral Nuclear Dynamics, World Scientific 1996 (doi:10.1142/1681)

• Brian Serot, John Dirk Walecka, Recent Progress in Quantum Hadrodynamics, Int. J. Mod. Phys. E6:515-631, 1997 (arXiv:nucl-th/9701058)

• R. V. Poberezhnyuk, V. Vovchenko, D. V. Anchishkin, M. I. Gorenstein, Quantum van der Waals and Walecka models of nuclear matter (arXiv:1708.05605)

Further inclusion of electromagnetism (photon field):

• A. Yu. Korchin, D. Van Neck, M. Waroquier, Electromagnetic interaction in chiral quantum hadrodynamics and decay of vector and axial-vector mesons, Phys. Rev. C67 (2003) 015207 (arXiv:nucl-th/0302042)

Relation to quark-meson coupling model:

• Koichi Saito, Relationship between Quark-Meson Coupling Model and Quantum Hadrodynamics, Prog. Theor. Phys. 108 (2002) 609-614 (arXiv:nucl-th/0207053)

Hadrodynamics via Light-front QCD

On light-front QCD for quantum hadrodynamics:

• International Light Cone Advisory Committee, Light-Front Quantum Chromodynamics: A framework for the analysis of hadron physics, Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements Volumes 251–252, June–July 2014, Pages 165-174 (arXiv:1309.6333, doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2014.05.004)

• Edward Shuryak, Ismail Zahed, Hadronic structure on the light-front I: Instanton effects and quark-antiquark effective potentials (arXiv:2110.15927)

• Edward Shuryak, Ismail Zahed, Hadronic structure on the light-front II: QCD strings, Wilson lines and potentials (arXiv:2111.01775)

Skyrme hadrodynamics with vector mesons ($\pi$-$\omega$-$\rho$-model)

Inclusion of vector mesons (omega-meson and rho-meson/A1-meson) into the Skyrmion model of quantum hadrodynamics, in addition to the pion:

First, on the equivalence between hidden local symmetry- and massive Yang-Mills theory-description of Skyrmion quantum hadrodynamics:

• Atsushi Hosaka, H. Toki, Wolfram Weise, Skyrme Solitons With Vector Mesons: Equivalence of the Massive Yang-Mills and Hidden Local Symmetry Scheme, 1988, Z. Phys. A332 (1989) 97-102 (spire:24079)

See also

• Marcelo Ipinza, Patricio Salgado-Rebolledo, Meron-like topological solitons in massive Yang-Mills theory and the Skyrme model (arXiv:2005.04920)

Inclusion of the $\omega$-meson

Original proposal for inclusion of the ω-meson in the Skyrme model:

• 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)

Relating to nucleon-scattering:

• J. M. Eisenberg, A. Erell, R. R. Silbar, Nucleon-nucleon force in a skyrmion model stabilized by omega exchange, Phys. Rev. C 33, 1531 (1986) (doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.33.1531)

Combination of the omega-meson-stabilized Skyrme model with the bag model for nucleons:

• Atsushi Hosaka, Omega stabilized chiral bag model with a surface $\omega q q$ coupling, Nuclear Physics A Volume 546, Issue 3, 31 (1992) Pages 493-508 (doi:10.1016/0375-9474(92)90544-T)

Discussion of nucleon phenomenology for the $\omega$-stabilized Skyrme model:

• Sven Bjarke Gudnason, James Martin Speight, Realistic classical binding energies in the $\omega$-Skyrme model (arXiv:2004.12862)

• Derek Harland, Paul Leask, Martin Speight, Skyrmion crystals stabilized by $\omega$-mesons [arXiv:2404.11287]

Inclusion of the $\rho$-meson

Original proposal for inclusion of the ρ-meson:

• Y. Igarashi, M. Johmura, A. Kobayashi, H. Otsu, T. Sato, S. Sawada, Stabilization of Skyrmions via $\rho$-Mesons, Nucl.Phys. B259 (1985) 721-729 (spire:213451, doi:10.1016/0550-3213(85)90010-0)

• Gregory Adkins, Rho mesons in the Skyrme model, Phys. Rev. D 33, 193 (1986) (spire:16895, doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.33.193)

Discussion for phenomenology of light atomic nuclei:

• Carlos Naya, Paul Sutcliffe, Skyrmions and clustering in light nuclei, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 232002 (2018) (arXiv:1811.02064)

• Carlos Naya, Paul Sutcliffe, Skyrmions in models with pions and rho, JHEP 05 (2018) 174 (arXiv:1803.06098)

  APS Synopsis: Revamping the Skyrmion Model, 2018

See also:

• Miguel Huidobro, Paul Leask, Carlos Naya, Andrzej Wereszczynski, Compressibility of dense nuclear matter in the $\rho$-meson variant of the Skyrme model [arXiv:2405.20757]

Inclusion of the $\omega$- and $\rho$-meson

The resulting $\pi$-$\rho$-$\omega$ model:

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

  (includes also the A1-meson)

• Ulf-G. Meissner, Norbert Kaiser, Wolfram Weise, 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, Norbert Kaiser, Andreas Wirzba, Wolfram Weise, Skyrmions with $\rho$ and $\omega$ Mesons as Dynamical Gauge Bosons, Phys. Rev. Lett. 57, 1676 (1986) (doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.57.1676)

• Ulf-G. Meissner, 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)

• L. Zhang, Nimai C. Mukhopadhyay, Baryon physics from mesons: Leading order properties of the nucleon and $\Delta(1232)$ in the $\pi \rho\omega a_1(f_1)$ chiral soliton model, Phys. Rev. D 50, 4668 (1994) (doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.50.4668, spire:384906)

• Yong-Liang Ma, Ghil-Seok Yang, Yongseok Oh, Masayasu Harada, Skyrmions with vector mesons in the hidden local symmetry approach, Phys. Rev. D87:034023, 2013 (arXiv:1209.3554)

  (hidden local symmetry)

• Ju-Hyun Jung, Ulugbek T. Yakhshiev, Hyun-Chul Kim, In-medium modified $\pi$-$\rho$-$\omega$ mesonic Lagrangian and properties of nuclear matter, Physics Letters B Volume 723, Issues 4–5, 25 June 2013, Pages 442-447 (arXiv:1212.4616, doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2013.05.042)

• Ju-Hyun Jung, Ulugbek Yakhshiev, Hyun-Chul Kim, Peter Schweitzerm, In-medium modified energy-momentum tensor form factors of the nucleon within the framework of a $\pi$-$\rho$-$\omgea$ soliton model, Phys. Rev. D 89, 114021 (2014) (arXiv:1402.0161)

• Yongseok Oh, Skyrmions with vector mesons revisited (arXiv:1402.2821)

See also

• Ki-Hoon Hong, Ulugbek Yakhshiev, Hyun-Chul Kim, Modification of hyperon masses in nuclear matter, Phys. Rev. C 99, 035212 (2019) (arXiv:1806.06504)

Review:

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

• Gottfried Holzwarth, Section 2.3 of: Electromagnetic Form Factors of the Nucleon in Chiral Soliton Models (arXiv:hep-ph/0511194), Chapter 2 in: The Multifaceted Skyrmion, World Scientific 2016 (doi:10.1142/9710)

• Yongseok Oh, Skyrmions with vector mesons: Single Skyrmion and baryonic matter, 2013 (pdf)

Combination of the omega-rho-Skyrme model with the bag model of quark confinement:

• H. Takashita, S. Yoro, H. Toki, Chiral bag plus skyrmion hybrid model with vector mesons for nucleon, Nuclear Physics A Volume 485, Issues 3–4, August 1988, Pages 589-605 (doi:10.1016/0375-9474(88)90555-6)

Inclusion of the $\sigma$-meson

Inclusion of the sigma-meson:

• Thomas D. Cohen, Explicit $\sigma$ meson, topology, and the large-$N$ limit of the Skyrmion, Phys. Rev. D 37 (1988) (doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.37.3344)

For analysis of neutron star equation of state:

• David Alvarez-Castillo, Alexander Ayriyan, Gergely Gábor Barnaföldi, Hovik Grigorian, Péter Pósfay, Studying the parameters of the extended $\sigma$-$\omega$ model for neutron star matter (arXiv:2006.03676)

Skyrme hadrodynamics with heavy quarks/mesons

Inclusion of heavy flavors into the Skyrme model for quantum hadrodynamics:

Inclusion of strange quarks/kaons

Inclusion of strange quarks/kaons into the Skyrme model:

• Curtis Callan, Igor Klebanov, 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)

• Curtis Callan, K. Hornbostel, Igor Klebanov, Baryon masses in the bound state approach to strangeness in the skyrme model, Physics Letters B Volume 202, Issue 2, 3 March 1988, Pages 269-275 (doi10.1016/0370-2693(88)90022-6)

• Norberto Scoccola, D. P. Min, H. Nadeau, Mannque Rho, 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)

Review:

• Igor Klebanov, section 6 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)

• Mannque Rho, Section 2.2 of: Cheshire Cat Hadrons, Phys. Rept. 240 (1994) 1-142 (arXiv:hep-ph/9310300, doi:10.1016/0370-1573(94)90002-7)

Inclusion of charm quarks/D-mesons

Inclusion of charm quarks/D-mesons into the Skyrme model:

• Mannque Rho, D. O. Riska, Norberto Scoccola, Charmed baryons as soliton - D meson bound states, Phys. Lett.B 251 (1990) 597-602 (spire:297771, doi:10.1016/0370-2693(90)90802-D)

• Yongseok Oh, Dong-Pil Min, Mannque Rho, Norberto Scoccola, Massive-quark baryons as skyrmions: Magnetic moments, Nuclear Physics A Volume 534, Issues 3–4 (1991) Pages 493-512 (doi:10.1016/0375-9474(91)90458-I)

Inclusion of bottom quarks/B-mesons

Inclusion of further heavy flavors beyond strange quark/kaons, namely charm quarks/D-mesons and bottom quarks/B-mesons, into the Skyrme model:

• Mannque Rho, D. O. Riska, Norberto Scoccola, The energy levels of the heavy flavour baryons in the topological soliton model, Zeitschrift für Physik A Hadrons and Nuclei volume 341, pages 343–352 (1992) (doi:10.1007/BF01283544)

• Arshad Momen, Joseph Schechter, Anand Subbaraman, Heavy Quark Solitons: Strangeness and Symmetry Breaking, Phys. Rev. D49:5970-5978, 1994 (arXiv:hep-ph/9401209)

• Yongseok Oh, Byung-Yoon Park, Dong-Pil Min, Heavy Baryons as Skyrmion with $1/m_Q$ Corrections, Phys. Rev. D49 (1994) 4649-4658 (arXiv:hep-ph/9402205)

Review:

• Mannque Rho, Massive-quark baryons as Skyrmions, Modern Physics Letters A, Vol. 06, No. 23 (1991) (doi:10.1142/S0217732391002268)

• Norberto Scoccola, Heavy quark skyrmions, (arXiv:0905.2722, doi:10.1142/9789814280709_0004), Chapter 4 in: The Multifaceted Skyrmion, World Scientific 2016 (doi:10.1142/9710)

Experiment

Observation of hadrons at LHC:

• Maria Vasileiou on behalf of the ALICE Collaboration, Measurement of the Hadronic Resonance Production with ALICE at the CERN LHC, Universe 2019, 5(1), 6 (doi:10.3390/universe5010006)

In lattice QCD

Computation of the mass of hadrons using lattice QCD (see also confinement and mass gap problem) is discussed in

• S. Durr, Z. Fodor, J. Frison, C. Hoelbling, R. Hoffmann, S.D. Katz, S. Krieg, T. Kurth, L. Lellouch, T. Lippert, K.K. Szabo, G. Vulvert,

  Ab-initio Determination of Light Hadron Masses,

  Science 322:1224-1227,2008 (arXiv:0906.3599)

  conclusion on p. 4:

our study strongly suggests that QCD is the theory of the strong interaction, at low energies as well

• Zoltan Fodor, Christian Hoelbling, Light Hadron Masses from Lattice QCD, Rev. Mod. Phys. 84, 449, (arXiv:1203.4789)

• S. Aoki et. al. Review of lattice results concerning low-energy particle physics (arXiv:1607.00299)

In Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model for AdS-QCD

QCD hadrons realized in the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model of holographic QCD:

• Edward Witten, Baryons And Branes In Anti de Sitter Space, JHEP 9807:006, 1998 (arXiv:hep-th/9805112)

• David Gross, Hirosi Ooguri, Aspects of Large N Gauge Theory Dynamics as Seen by String Theory, Phys.Rev.D58:106002,1998 (arXiv:hep-th/9805129)

• Tadakatsu Sakai, Shigeki Sugimoto, Low energy hadron physics in holographic QCD, Prog.Theor.Phys.113:843-882, 2005 (arXiv:hep-th/0412141)

• Tadakatsu Sakai, Shigeki Sugimoto, More on a holographic dual of QCD, Prog.Theor.Phys.114:1083-1118, 2005 (arXiv:hep-th/0507073)

• Hiroyuki Hata, Tadakatsu Sakai, Shigeki Sugimoto, Shinichiro Yamato, Baryons from instantons in holographic QCD, Prog.Theor.Phys.117:1157, 2007 (arXiv:hep-th/0701280)

Review

• Anton Rebhan, The Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model: A brief review and some recent results, 3rd International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics, Kolymbari, Crete, 2014 (arXiv:1410.8858)

• Shigeki Sugimoto, Skyrmion and String theory, chapter 15 in Mannque Rho, Ismail Zahed (eds.) The Multifaceted Skyrmion, World Scientific 2016 (doi:10.1142/9710)

• Sophia K Domokos, Robert Bell, Trinh La, Patrick Mazza, A Pedagogical Introduction to Holographic Hadrons (arXiv:2106.13136)