Publisher's Synopsis
In the book, concepts related to the models of the nucleons are introduced to the readers. It contains a comprehensive treatment of the naive quark-models of the nucleon, including the successful Isgur-Karl nonrelativistic model and the M.I.T bag model. It also discusses the Chiral symmetry and chiral bag models, Classical gauge theories, the QCD vacuum, and the I/Nc-expansion. The book introduces the concepts of instantons, solitons, topological terminology, implications of vector dominance and the Skyrmion. The book is primarily aimed at benefiting the student of the subject; however the comprehensive and lucid approach of the book, which attempts to simplify the complex notions of the models of the nucleon, makes it an undemanding read for those readers who are interested in the subject but do not have any prior knowledge about it.
