Justifying the Chiral Bag (original) (raw)
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Abstract
We show that the Casimir energy in the Chiral Bag Model, known to be divergent, becomes finite when exterior fermions are included. If limited to high energies, these fermions do not spoil the confinement properties of the bag. The result of finiteness is analogous to known results for the electromagnetic field in the presence of a thin conducting shell. Implications for the Cheshire Cat principle are examined, a justification for previous Chiral Bag Model calculations is offered, and new methods for simplifying Chiral Bag Model calculations are discussed.
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Physics Reports
Pub Date:
March 1990
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