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Phys. Rev. 124, 246–254 (1961)

Dynamical Model of Elementary Particles Based on an Analogy with Superconductivity. II

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Y. Nambu and G. Jona-Lasinio*
Enrico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies and Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Received 10 May 1961; published in the issue dated October 1961

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Continuing the program developed in a previous paper, a "superconductive" solution describing the proton-neutron doublet is obtained from a nonlinear spinor field Lagrangian. We find the pions of finite mass as nucleon-antinucleon bound states by introducing a small bare mass into the Lagrangian which otherwise possesses a certain type of the γ5 invariance. In addition, heavier mesons and two-nucleon bound states are obtained in the same approximation. On the basis of numerical mass relations, it is suggested that the bare nucleon field is similar to the electron-neutrino field, and further speculations are made concerning the complete description of the baryons and leptons.

© 1961 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRev.124.246
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRev.124.246

*Present address: Istituto di Fisica dell'Universita, Roma, and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma, Italy.

See Also

See Also: Y. Nambu and G. Jona-Lasinio, Dynamical Model of Elementary Particles Based on an Analogy with Superconductivity. I, Phys. Rev. 122, 345 (1961).