Nucleon-antinucleon annihilation via confined quark-gluon states
- 1 October 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 32 (7), 1672-1680
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.32.1672
Abstract
In this work we use the quark degrees of freedom in a nucleon to calculate a nucleon-antinucleon annihilation potential. The range of this annihilation is determined by the long-range confinement forces giving the quark wave functions which also reproduce the nucleon charge radius. We find that NN¯ scattering is sensitive to the annihilation mainly between 0.5 and 2.0 fm. Our annihilation model shows that the dominant annihilation contribution to NN¯ scattering comes from qqq¯ q¯ multigluon intermediate states and that the intermediate qq¯ multigluon as well as pure gluonic states are less important for NN¯ scattering.Keywords
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