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SU(3) String-Flip Potential Models and Nuclear Matter

M. Boyce, P. J. S. Watson

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9312328

Abstract

A Monte Carlo model for nuclear matter using a many body SUc(3) string flip potential, with fixed colour, is investigated. The potential is approximated by considering colour singlet flux tube formations that connect only three quarks at a time. The model is compared with a similar string flip model, proposed by Horowitz and Piekarewicz kn:HorowitzI, that approximates higher order flux tube formations by connecting quarks in colour singlet chains. The former model gives an EMC nucleon ``swelling'' effect, whereas the latter gives an opposite effect. Possible discrepancies between the two models are discussed.

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