2002/01/31 by Vladimir Pascalutsa
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ph #hep-lat #nucl-th #physics.data-an
published as Eur.Phys.J. A16 (2003) 149-153 · 9 pages, 3 figures, revised
arxiv created 2002/09/27 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
The nearest-neighbor mass-spacing distribution of the meson and baryon spectrum (up to 2.5 GeV) is described by the Wigner surmise corresponding to the statistics of the Gaussian orthogonal ensemble of random matrix theory. This can be viewed as a manifestation of quantum chaos in hadrons.