1. Institut für Theoretische Physik II, Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum, D-44789, Bochum, Germany 2. Departamento de F?sica and Centro de F?sica Computacional, Universidade de Coimbra, P-3000, Coimbra, Portugal
Abstract:
The dependence of the nucleon mass on the mass of the pion is studied in the framework of the chiral quark-soliton model.
A remarkable agreement is observed with lattice data from recent full dynamical simulations. The possibility and limitations
to use the results from the chiral quark soliton model as a guideline for the chiral extrapolation of lattice data are discussed.