Quarks in the Skyrme-'t Hooft-Witten Model

TL;DR

This paper reinterprets the three-flavor Skyrme-'t Hooft-Witten model by introducing a quark-like substructure, resulting in a novel model of confined, color-free quarks that differ from traditional pre-color quarks.

Contribution

It presents a new interpretation of the Skyrme-'t Hooft-Witten model with a quark-like substructure, offering a different perspective on confinement and quark behavior.

Findings

Introduction of a quark-like substructure in the model

Development of a new model of confined, color-free quarks

Differences from Gell-Mann's original pre-color quarks

Abstract

The three-flavor Skyrme-'t Hooft-Witten model is interpreted in terms of a quark-like substructure, leading to a new model of explicitly confined color-free ``quarks'' reminiscent of Gell-Mann's original pre-color quarks, but with unexpected and significant differences.