Dilatons in the topological soliton model for the hyperons

We show that the predicted hyperon masses in the topological soliton model are very sensitive to the value to the gluon condensate parameter that appears when the scale invariance and trace anomaly of QCD are taken into account by introduction of a dilaton field. This contrasts with the insensitivity of the soliton properties to the dilaton coupling. In order that the predicted strange and charmed hyperon spectra agree with the empirical ones the gluon condensate parameter has to be about (400 MeV)⁴, which agrees with the result obtained from QCD sum rules. Within the framework of the present model this implies that the bag formed by the scalar field must be very shallow.