skyrmion
Urs Schreiber
fields and particles in particle physics
and in the standard model of particle physics:
matter field fermions (spinors, Dirac fields)
(also: antiparticles)
hadrons (bound states of the above quarks)
bosinos:
dark matter candidates
Exotica
Skyrme had studied with attention Kelvin's ideas on vortex atoms.
A Skyrmion is a soliton in certain (flavour) gauge field theories. The concept exists quite generally (see Rho-Zahed 16), but its original use (Skyrme 62), and still the most important one,...