The Nucleon and the Nuclear Force: Effective Theory and Path-Integral Methods

Abstract

Abstract. The nucleon structure and the nuclear force are investigated in the context of the nonperturbative path-integral method of hadronization. Starting from a microscopic quark-diquark model, the nucleon is generated as a relativistic bound state and an effective chiral meson-nucleon Lagrangian is derived. Many of the nucleon physical properties are studied using a theory of at most two free parameters.