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Published June 1, 1992 | public
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Baryon-antibaryon annihilation in the Skyrme model

Abstract

The dynamics of Skyrmion-anti-Skyrmion annihilations in 3+1 dimensions is examined by the numerical integration of the classical Hamilton equations of motion. The baryon number is found to disappear extremely rapidly, close to the causal limit, while the energy distribution still remains concentrated in the annihilation region. The emission of pion waves emitted by the annihilation process is investigated.

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©1992 The American Physical Society Received 16 December 1991 We would like to thank K. Burgi and S. France for their help with the numerical calculations. The computations were carried out at the San Diego Supercomputer Center and at the Lawrence Livermore NMFECC. H.M.S. acknowledges the support of the Physics Computer Center at U. C. Santa Barbara. This work has been supported by the NSF (Grant Nos. PHY88-17296 and PHY90-13248 at Caltech, and PHY87-06748 at Westmont College), and by the DOE (Grant No. DE-FG03-87ER40347 at CSUN).

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