Date of Award
12-1981
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Physics
Supervisor
Professor Y. Nogami
Abstract
Models are constructed and studied for the low-energy interactions in each of two hadronic systems, the KN and the πN. In the low-energy KN system, there appears the resonance Λ(1405); in the low-energy πN system, the resonance Δ(1232). Each of the models is so constructed that the corresponding resonance appears, not merely as a composite state of the hadrons in the system in which it is formed, which is how it appears in older and more conventional models, but as a state to which there is also a contribution from the constituent quarks. The models for the KN interaction is studied primarily with a view to explaining the recent and unexpected kaonic H-atom result - something which no existing model is able to do. The model for the πN interaction is used to study πN scattering in the (3,3) channel.
Recommended Citation
Kumar, Surendra, "Models For the Low-Energy K-N and π-N Interactions" (1981). Open Access Dissertations and Theses. Paper 1635.
http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/opendissertations/1635