Chiral Soliton Models for Baryons

This concise research monograph introduces and reviews the concept of chiral soliton models for baryons.

In these models, baryons emerge as (topological) defects of the chiral field. The many applications shed light on a number of bayron properties, ranging from static properties via nucleon resonances and deep inelastic scattering to even heavy ion collisions. As far as possible, the theoretical investigations are confronted with experiment. Conceived to bridge the gap between advanced gr...