STRANGE SKYRMIONS - STATUS AND OBSERVABLE PREDICTIONS

The chiral soliton approach (CSA) provides predictions of the rich spe ctrum of baryonic states with different values of strangeness for any baryon number B. In the sector with B = 1, the spectrum of well known octet and decuplet of baryons can be described within the CSA, and som e exotic states are predicted. In the B = 2 sector, there are many pre dictions of strange dibaryons, but only few - e.g., the virtual Lambda Nu state - have been observed. Possible reasons for this are discusse d.