Nuclear Physics and the Quark Model: A Study of Six Quarks with Chromodynamics

Abstract

The six-quark system has been studied in a nonrelativistic quark model which incorporates some of the features expected from chromodynamics. With use of a large basis space which includes color, spin, and orbital excitations, and a Hamiltonian completely determined by previous studies of baryon structure, a number of the features of low-energy nuclear physics are derived. When supplemented with a reasonable model for one-pion exchange, the residual color interactions give a good account of the properties of the deuteron.