Nucleon-nucleon interaction in the chromodielectric soliton model: Dynamics

The present work is an extension of a previous study of the nucleon-nucleon interaction based on the chromodielectric soliton model. The former approach was static, leading to an adiabatic potential. Here we perform a dynamical study in the framework of the generator coordinate method. In practice we derive an approximate Hill-Wheeler differential equation and obtain a local nucleon-nucleon potential as a function of a mean generator coordinate. This coordinate is related to an effective separation distance between the two nucleons by a Fujiwara transformation. This latter relationship is especially useful in studying the quark substructure of light nuclei. We investigate the explicit contribution of the one-gluon exchange part of the six-quark Hamiltonian to the nucleon-nucleon potential, and we find that the dynamics are responsible for a significant part of the short-range N-N repulsion.