MESONS, BARYONS AND WAVES IN THE BABY SKYRMION MODEL

We study various classical solutions of the baby-Skyrmion model in (2 + 1) dimensions. We point out the existence of higher energy states, i nterpret them as resonances of Skyrmions and anti-Skyrmions and study their decays. Most of the discussion involves a highly exited Skyrmion -like state with winding number one which decays into an ordinary Skyr mion and a Skyrmion-anti-Skyrmion pair. We also study wave-like soluti ons of the model and show that some of such solutions can be construct ed from the solutions of the sine-Gordon equation. We also show that t he baby-Skyrmion model has non-topological stationary solutions. We st udy their interactions with Skyrmions.