Quark-Quark and Quark-nucleon Potential model Extended-soft-core meson-exchange Interactions

Abstract: The Quark-quark (QQ) and Quark-nucleon (QN) interactions in this paper are derived from the Extended-soft-core (ESC) interactions. The meson-quark-quark (MQQ) vertices are determined in the framework of the constituent quark model (CQM). These vertices are such that upon folding with the ground-state baryon quark wave functions the one-boson-exchange (OBE) amplitudes for baryon-baryon (BB), and in particularly for nucleon-nucleon (NN), are reproduced. This opens the attractive possibility to define meson-quark interactions at the quark level which are directly related related to the interactions at the baryon level. the latter have been determined by the baryon-baryon data. Application of these "realistic" quark-quark interactions in the quark-matter phase is presumably of relevance for the description of highly condensed matter, as e.g. neutron-star matter.