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The effect of pion mass on Skyrme configurations
Conor Houghton, Shane Magee
In the Skyrme model, atomic nuclei are identified with solitonic configurations. If the pion mass is set to zero, these configurations are spherical shells of energy with a fullere…
A zero-mode quantization of the Skyrmion
Conor Houghton, Shane Magee
In the semi-classical approach to the Skyrme model, nuclei are approximated by quantum mechanical states on a finite-dimensional space of field configurations; in zero-mode quantiz…
Pulsation and Precession of the Resonant Swinging Spring
Peter Lynch, Conor Houghton
When the frequencies of the elastic and pendular oscillations of an elastic pendulum or swinging spring are in the ratio two-to-one, there is a regular exchange of energy between t…
Icosahedral Skyrmions
Richard Battye, Conor Houghton, Paul Sutcliffe
In this paper we aim to determine the baryon numbers at which the minimal energy Skyrmion has icosahedral symmetry. By comparing polyhedra which arise as minimal energy Skyrmions w…
Multicloud solutions with massless and massive monopoles
Conor J. Houghton, Erick J. Weinberg
Certain spontaneously broken gauge theories contain massless magnetic monopoles. These are realized classically as clouds of non-Abelian fields surrounding one or more massive mono…
Folding in the Skyrme Model
Conor J. Houghton, Steffen Krusch
There are only three stable singularities of a differentiable map between three-dimensional manifolds, namely folds, cusps and swallowtails. A Skyrme configuration is a map from sp…