Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>The foundations of Many-Fermion Dynamics (MFD) are developed with special attention paid to a treatment of color and flavor degrees of freedom. From these ingredients a framework was developed to calculate the properties of many-fermion bound states. The quark implementation of MFD (MFDq) was extensively tested on the 2-body problem against the established nucleon implementation of MFD (MFDn). We were able to perform a limited set of self-consistency checks of MFDq in the 4-body problem to test a proper treatment of all computed matrix elements.;Finally, calculations are presented using MFDn to predict the properties of 4-body charmonium bound states. With MFDn, we did find a lowest bound state of J = 0 at 6.033 GeV with a deviation of .084 GeV. Additional bound states are also obtained. Preliminary calculations with MFDq qualitatively confirm these results.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Level thesis:degree_level
- dissertation
- Department dc:contributor.department
- Department of Physics and Astronomy
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2003
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
-
- Lloyd, Richard
- Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
-
- James P. Vary
Rights
- Language dc:language.iso
- en
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- archive/lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/1446/
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:dr.lib.iastate.edu:20.500.12876/67988