1998/08/26 by Charles W. Johnson, George Fai
Physics and Astronomy · #nucl-th
published as Acta Phys.Hung.New Ser.Heavy Ion Phys. 8 (1998) 343-357 · 14 pages with 4 figures
arxiv created 1998/08/26 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
We examine saturation properties of a quark-based picture of nuclear matter. Soliton matter consisting of nonlocal confining solitons is used to model nuclear matter. Each composite nucleon is described by a non-topological soliton as given by the Global Color Model. We apply techniques and concepts from the discription of crystal lattices. In particular, the Wigner-Seitz approximation is used to calculate the properties of the soliton lattice at the mean-field level. We focus on infinite nuclear matter at around standard nuclear matter density with the simplest one-parameter assumption for the gluon propagator. the saturation density and incompressibility are calculated as functions of the single parameter of the model