Mapping of composite hadrons into elementary hadrons and effective hadronic Hamiltonians (Q1267571)

Mapping techniques are widely used in nuclear physics for description of collective motions of nuclei. They can be extended to hadronic physics, in particular, to constituent quark models. The article considers an approach which is sometimes called ``Fock-Tani'' representation. It is based on the ideas of mapping between physical and ideal Fock spaces and is similar to the quasiparticle method of Weinberg. Although the Fock representation of the system uses field operators of elementary constituents which satisfy canonical (anti)commutation relations, the composite-particle field operators do not necessarily satisfy them. The idea of the Fock-Tani method is to change representation, such that the field operators of composite particles are re-described by the field operators which satisfy canonical (anti)commutation relations. Thus the complications of the composite particles (hadrons) is transferred to the effective Hamiltonians which involve explicit hadron degrees of freedom. The effective Hamiltonians in the new representation are hermitian and have a clear physical interpretation. Then the standard methods of quantum field theory may be applied. Some features of the method make it useful namely for hadronic problems. The authors consider the Fock-Tani transformation for the quark-antiquark meson systems, three-quark baryon systems and discuss more general hadron Fock-space states where creation and annihilation of particles plays an important role. Some examples and comparison with the results of other composite-particle formalisms are made for the case of nonrelativistic quark model. Perspectives of the approach are presented in the last part of the article.