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Chiral solitons in nuclei: Saturation, EMC effect and Drell-Yan experiments

J. R. Smith, G. A. Miller

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/0308048

Abstract

The Chiral Quark-Soliton model of the nucleon contains a mechanism for an attractive interaction between nucleons. This, along with the exchange of vector mesons between nucleons, is used to compute the saturation properties of infinite nuclear matter. This provides a new way to asses the effects of the nuclear medium on a nucleon that includes valence and sea quarks. We show that the model simultaneously describes the nuclear EMC effect and the related Drell-Yan experiments.

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