Does the skyrmion support color transparency?

We study one aspect of the mechanisms that are believed to lead to color transparency, namely the question of whether a "small nucleon", as ejected by a probe involving very high momentum transfer, will exhibit reduced scattering on a nucleon of normal size. This study is performed by considering the repulsive part of the central potential for two baryons of nucleonic quantum numbers, as described in the skyrmion approach with the product ansatz. One of the skyrmions is reduced in radial extent by scaling its radial variable. The interaction between these objects decreases as the "small nucleon" (here called a minusculon) becomes smaller, the central repulsion dropping linearly with the size of the minusculon, and the range of the interaction decreasing faster for minusculons smaller than roughly a tenth the size of a normal nucleon.